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2007 Michelangelo Antonioni, dies in Rome, Italy, at 94
1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site 1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1995 Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front), dies at 89 1993 Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome 1993 Gordon Douglas, actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85 1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed 1992 Joop Van Nellen, soccer/trainer (DHC/"We go to Rome!"), dies 1992 Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies 1991 Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome 1991 Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78 1990 Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome 1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome 1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome 1987 Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17) 1987 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome 1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue 1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC 1985 Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi 1984 Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome 1984 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75 1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) 1982 Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead 1981 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life 1980 Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65 1977 SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome 1977 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome 1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) 1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" 1971 Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome 1969 Butch Walker, Rome, Georgia, heavy metal guitarist, Southgang-Tainted Angel 1969 Rome: 2nd bishop synod 1969 Jesse Harte, Rome, Georgia, heavy metal vocalist, Southgang-Tainted Angel 1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri 1967 Valeria Marini, Rome, Italy, sports commentator, Italian Soccer 1966 Archi Cianfrocco, Rome, New York, infielder for the San Diego Padres 1965 Francesca Dellera, Cervellera, Rome, Italy, actress, Capriccio 1964 Amanda Sandrelli, Rome, Italy, actress, The Key 1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome 1964 Giuseppe Giannini, Rome, Italy, soccer player, Rome A Team 1963 2nd session of Ecumenical council, 'Vatican II,' opens in Rome 1963 President Kennedy arrives in Rome 1963 Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63 1961 Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rome, Italy, concert violinist 1960 17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy 1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome 1958 Pamela Prati, Rome, Italy, Million $ Cap, 1984, actress 1957 Luca Urbani, Rome, Italy, MD/astronaut, STS-78-alt 1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market 1955 Ornella Muti, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife 1954 Umberto Guidoni, Rome, Italy, PhD/astronaut, STS-75 1953 Arnella Flynn, Rome, Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter 1953 Eleonora Giorgi, Rome, Italy, actress, Nu de Femme, To Forget Venice 1953 Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome 1953 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82 1952 Isabella Rossellini, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Big Night, Blue Velvet 1952 Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI 1951 Silvia Dionisio, Rome, Italy, actress, Riavanti Marsh!, Amici Miei 1950 Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star, French 1976, Italian 1976 1947 Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome 1946 Sydne Rome, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, What?, Candy 1946 Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister," premieres in New York City 1946 Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome 1944 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1944 Allies march into Rome 1944 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies 1944 Nazis pull out of Rome 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians 1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die 1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 Anti Jewish riot in Rome 1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz 1943 German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City 1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome 1943 Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II 1943 Zoltan Jeney, born in Szolnok, Hungary, composer, minimalist style, studied with Ferenc Farkas in Budapest, Goffredo Petrassi, in Rome 1941 Marina Ripa, Rome, Italy, countess/writer, My First 40 Years 1940 Ira von Furstenberg, Virginia Caroline, Rome, Italy, Princess, Monaco 1936 Italy, Austria and Hungary sign Pact of Rome 1934 Sophia Loren, born in Rome, actress, Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid 1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome 1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) 1932 Milly Vitale, born in Rome, actress, 7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler 1931 Monica Vitti, Ceciarelli, Rome, Italy, actress, Tigers in Lipstick 1931 Lucianna Paluzzi, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Five Fingers, Thunderball 1930 Michael Collins, Rome, Major General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11 1930 Ugo Gregoretti, Rome, Italy, actor, Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty 1930 Silvana Mangano, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Death in Venice, Barabbas 1929 Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome 1928 Ennio Morricone, Rome, Italy, composer/musician 1928 Lina Wertmueller, Arcanguela von Elgg, Rome, actress, 7 Beauties 1927 Boris Porena, born in Rome, Italy, Italian composer, didactical expert, studied under Goffredo Petrassi, influenced by neoclassical poetics, wrote texts about music including Musica-Societa which includes social and political analysis 1927 Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy 1927 Ettore Manni, Rome, Italy, actor, Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell 1926 Cesare Danova, born in Rome, Italy, actor, Garrison's Gorillas 1925 Silvana Pampanini, Rome, Italy, actress, Day in Court, Island Sinner 1924 Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer, Sins of Rome 1924 Marcello Mastroianni, Rome, Italy, actor, 8, La Dolce Vita 1924 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome 1922 Mussolini marches on Rome 1922 Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die 1921 Jeff Donnell, born in South Windham, Maine, actor, Gidget Goes to Rome 1919 John Secondari, Rome, Italy, newscaster, Open Hearing 1919 Alberto Sordi, born in Rome, Italy, actor, Miser, Taxi Driver in New York 1917 Domenico Scarlatti and Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome 1916 Guido Turchi, Rome, Italy, composer, Invettiva 1914 Kay Medford, born in New York City, actress, Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love 1912 Renato Rascel, actor, 7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt 1910 Richard Conte, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor, 4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel 1908 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman, Club of Rome 1908 Harold Rome, composer, Fanny, Pins and Needles 1907 Renzo Cesana, Rome, Italy, TV host, First Date, Continental 1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) 1906 Andreina Pagnani, Rome, Italy, actress, Il Commandante 1906 Roberto Rossellini, Rome, Italy, director, Open City 1906 Jeffrey Lynn, actor, Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front 1901 Enrico Fermi, born in Rome, U.S. physicist, gone fission/fermium, Nobel-1938 1900 Salvatore Baccaloni, born in Rome, actor, Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby 1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome 1898 Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome) 1898 d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome 1896 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, La marcia su Rome 1892 Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy, bass singer, South Pacific, RCA Victor Show 1890 Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome 1888 Donald Calthrop, London, actor, Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express 1879 Ottorino Respighi, born in Bologna, Italy, composer, Pines of Rome 1870 Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree 1870 Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital 1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French 1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome 1867 Garibaldi marches on Rome 1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia 1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX 1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome 1849 Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike 1832 Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte, l'aiglon, king of Rome, dies at 21 1821 John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome 1820 Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope, in Rome 1817 Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome 1816 Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome 1816 Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome 1811 Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, Napoleon's son/King of Rome 1795 Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome 1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome 1680 Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th 1671 Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies 1667 Georges de Scudery, French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at 65 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1633 M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome 1626 St-Petruskerk in Rome, initiated 1611 Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome 1601 Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome 1583 Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake 1556 St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome 1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome 1527 Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance 1524 Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome 1512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1501 Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna 1472 Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow 1463 Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65 1413 King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome 1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal 1341 Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome 1295 Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome 1267 Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV 1215 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1165 Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome 1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1111 German King Hendry V arrives at St. Peter, Rome 1105 Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary 1083 Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St. Peter's Cathedral 1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome 1003 Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome 875 Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome 799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome 537 Goths lay siege to Rome 536 Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten 455 A D Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome 422 Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies 417 Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 410 King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies and plunders Rome 404 Last gladiator competition in Rome 401 Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies 395 Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49 394 Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle 392 Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21 383 Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25 364 Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32 363 Flavius C Julianus, Apostata, emperor of Rome (361-63), dies 357 Emperor Constantius II visits Rome 337 Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome (306-37)/anti semite, dies 337 Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47 336 Marcus, bishop of Rome (336), dies 317 Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome, 337-61 313 Gaius G V Maximus, Daia, Emperor of Rome, dies 311 Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50 307 Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies 306 Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome 306 Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies 304 Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, dies 284 General Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome 276 Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered 273 Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274) 267 Dionysius, bishop of Rome/saint, dies 259 Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II 258 Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded 257 Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies 254 Lucius I, bishop of Rome (253-54), dies 235 Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down 235 Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered 222 Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18? 219 Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome 218 Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54 211 Lucius Septimus Severus, emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64 193 Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61 193 Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome 192 Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 180 Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, dies at 58 161 Lucius A. A. Coomodus, emperor of Rome, 180-91 161 Antoninus Pius, Titus Aurelius, emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74 155 Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies 135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome 121 Marcus Aurelius, born in Rome, Emperor of Rome, 161 - 180 117 Mark Ulpius Trajanus, emperor of Rome (98-117) 98 Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67 96 Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45 89 Governor Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome 81 Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42 70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem 69 General Vespasianus occupies Rome 69 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered 68 Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba 65 Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem 64 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire 64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) 37 Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus, 5th emperor of Rome, 54-68 37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77 37 Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero, emperor of Rome, 54-68 28 Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome 13 Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany |
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