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    1928 in Italy

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    Events during the year 1928 in Italy.

    Incumbents

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    • Monarch: Victor Emmanuel III
    • Prime Minister: Benito Mussolini

    Events

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    • April 12 – A bomb, directed against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, kills 18 people at the Milan Trade Fair.[1]
    • May 24 – The airship Italia reaches the North Pole, with expedition leader Umberto Nobile on board. The ship crashes on its return journey.[2]
    • June 24 – Umberto Nobile and survivors of the crash of the airship Italia are rescued by the crew of a Swedish aeroplane.
    • August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.

    Births

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    • January 2 – Alberto Zedda, conductor and musicologist (died 2017)
    • January 9 – Domenico Modugno, singer, songwriter, actor and politician (died 1994)[3]
    • June 5 – Umberto Maglioli, racing driver (died 1999)
    • June 6 – Elio Sgreccia, cardinal (died 2019)
    • June 29 – Alfredo Biondi, politician and lawyer (died 2020)
    • July 4 – Giampiero Boniperti, footballer (died 2021)[4]
    • July 26 – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (died 2010)[5]
    • October 16 – Nando Gazzolo, actor and voice actor (died 2015)
    • December 22
      • Piero Angela, writer, journalist and television presenter[6]
      • Luisa Massimo, pediatrician (died 2016)

    Deaths

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    • February 28 – Armando Diaz, 66, general, Marshal of Italy
    • March 31 – Medardo Rosso, 70, sculptor
    • May 25 (lost in the crash of the airship Italia)[2]
      • Aldo Pontremoli, 32, physicist
      • Renato Alessandrini, 37, explorer
    • July 17 – Giovanni Giolitti, 85, 13th Prime Minister of Italy[7]

    References

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    1. ^ Jonathan Dunnage (2012). Mussolini's Policemen: Behaviour, Ideology and Institutional Culture in Representation and Practice. Oxford University Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-7190-8139-2.
    2. ^ a b Basil Collier (1974). The airship: a history. Putnam. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-399-11430-4.
    3. ^ Gino Moliterno (11 September 2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 526. ISBN 978-1-134-75876-0.
    4. ^ Gigi Garanzini. "BONIPERTI, Giampiero" (in Italian). Treccani: Enciclopedia dello Sport (2002). Retrieved 20 June 2021.
    5. ^ Michael Ellul (1998). History on Marble: A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Presidential Palaces in Valletta, San Anton and Verdala, Malta. PEG, Publishers enterprises group. p. 477. ISBN 978-99909-0-103-0.
    6. ^ Ravizza, Simona (1 July 2010). "Piero Angela "Sono del 28 e guido bene, più pericolosi i ragazzi"" [PIERO ANGELA "I'm from 1928 and I drive well, young people are more dangerous"]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian): 27. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 24 Oct 2019.
    7. ^ Giovanni Giolitti, DIZIONARIO BIOGRAFICO
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