1980 in Italy
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Events during the year 1980 in Italy
Incumbents
[edit]- President – Sandro Pertini[1]
- Prime Minister – Francesco Cossiga (until 18 October); Arnaldo Forlani (after 18 October)[2]
Events
[edit]- 27 June – Ustica Massacre: Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea mid-flight from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 people on board.[3]
- 2 August – A terrorist attack at Bologna Centrale railway station kills 85 people and injures over 200.[4]
Birth
[edit]- 19 January – Anna Incerti, runner[5]
- 17 June – Elisa Rigaudo, race walker[6]
- 23 June – Francesca Schiavone, tennis player[7]
- 26 July – Giulia Pignolo, sailor[8]
- 7 October – Clarissa Claretti, hammer thrower[9]
Deaths
[edit]- 1 January
- Aldo Aimi, footballer (b. 1906)
- Pietro Nenni, politician (b. 1891)[10]
- 6 January – Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935)[11]
- 9 January – Gaetano Belloni, road racing cyclist (b. 1892)
- 22 January – Teresa Noce, labour leader, activist and journalist (b. 1900)[12]
- 27 January – Peppino De Filippo, actor (b. 1903)
- 28 January – Franco Evangelisti, composer (b. 1926)
- 7 February – Secondo Campini, jet pioneer (b. 1904)[13]
- 21 February – Aldo Andreotti, mathematician (b. 1924)
- 26 February – Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
References
[edit]- ^ Cook, Bernard A. (2001). Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 974. ISBN 978-0-8153-4058-4.
- ^ Lomellini, Valentine (8 January 2024). The Italian State and International Terrorism, 1969–1986: The Lodo Moro. Springer Nature. p. 240. ISBN 978-3-031-43160-9.
- ^ McMahon, Barbara (21 July 2006). "The mystery of flight 870". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ Giuffrida, Angela (7 August 2023). "Italian official rebuked for proclaiming innocence of Bologna terrorists". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Anna Incerti". www.eurosport.com. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Elisa Rigaudo". www.eurosport.com. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Francesca Schiavone". www.eurosport.com. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ "Olympedia – Giulia Pignolo". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ "IAAF World Championships | Results | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ Socialist Affairs. Socialist International. 1980. p. 20.
- ^ Schneider, Jane T. & Peter T. Schneider (2003). Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo, Berkeley: University of California Press ISBN 0-520-23609-2 page=158
- ^ "Noce, Teresa (1900–1980)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002-01-01. Archived from the original on 2016-02-20.
- ^ Ferraris, Mattia (1988). "CAMPINI, Secondo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 34. Retrieved 10 April 2024 – via Treccani.