1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
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 (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
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 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
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, Mjr Gen 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 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/gov-gen 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 Gen 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 Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], 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 Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus A Verus], 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 Gov 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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