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2013 Event - In Rome, Italy, Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy, dies at age 94

2013 Event - In Rome, Italy, the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square; hundreds of thousands attend

2013 Event - In Rome, Italy, Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI

2013 Event - More than 100 Catholic cardinals meet in Rome, Italy, to begin the process of selecting the successor to Pope Benedict XVI

2012 Event - At St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Rome, Pope Benedict XVI delivers the annual Christmas Message and holds traditional Mass at St. Peters Basilica

2011 Event - In Rome, Italy, over 500,000 people demonstrate, demanding same-sex rights

2009 Event - Tens of thousands in Rome, Italy, participate in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi

2007 Death - Michelangelo Antonioni, dies in Rome, Italy, at 94

1997 Event - Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site

1996 Death - 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 Death - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front), dies at 89

1993 Event - Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome

1993 Death - Gordon Douglas, actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85

1993 Event - Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed

1992 Death - Joop Van Nellen, soccer/trainer (DHC/"We go to Rome!"), dies

1992 Death - Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies

1991 Event - Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome

1991 Death - Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78

1990 Event - Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome

1989 Death - Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome

1988 Event - 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome

1987 Event - Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)

1987 Event - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome

1986 Event - Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue

1986 Event - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC

1985 Event - Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi

1984 Event - Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome

1984 Death - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75

1983 Event - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)

1982 Event - Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead

1981 Event - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life

1980 Death - Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65

1977 Event - SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome

1977 Event - Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome

1975 Birthday - Asia Argento, born in Rome, Italy, actress, director, films include, 'La Chiesa', 'Trauma', 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Scarlet Diva', 'Red Siren'

1972 Event - Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)

1972 Event - Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"

1971 Event - Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome

1969 Birthday - Butch Walker, Rome, Georgia, heavy metal guitarist, Southgang-Tainted Angel

1969 Event - Rome: 2nd bishop synod

1969 Birthday - Jesse Harte, Rome, Georgia, heavy metal vocalist, Southgang-Tainted Angel

1968 Event - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri

1967 Birthday - Valeria Marini, Rome, Italy, sports commentator, Italian Soccer

1966 Birthday - Archi Cianfrocco, Rome, New York, infielder for the San Diego Padres

1965 Birthday - Francesca Dellera, Cervellera, Rome, Italy, actress, Capriccio

1964 Birthday - Amanda Sandrelli, Rome, Italy, actress, The Key

1964 Event - 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome

1964 Birthday - Giuseppe Giannini, Rome, Italy, soccer player, Rome A Team

1963 Event - 2nd session of Ecumenical council, 'Vatican II,' opens in Rome

1963 Event - President Kennedy arrives in Rome

1963 Death - Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63

1961 Birthday - Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rome, Italy, concert violinist

1960 Event - 17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy

1960 Event - 17th summer olympics opens in Rome

1958 Birthday - Pamela Prati, Rome, Italy, Million $ Cap, 1984, actress

1957 Birthday - Luca Urbani, Rome, Italy, MD/astronaut, STS-78-alt

1957 Event - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market

1955 Birthday - Ornella Muti, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife

1954 Birthday - Umberto Guidoni, Rome, Italy, PhD/astronaut, STS-75

1953 Birthday - Arnella Flynn, Rome, Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter

1953 Birthday - Eleonora Giorgi, Rome, Italy, actress, Nu de Femme, To Forget Venice

1953 Event - Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome

1953 Death - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82

1952 Birthday - Isabella Rossellini, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Big Night, Blue Velvet

1952 Birthday - Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI

1951 Birthday - Silvia Dionisio, Rome, Italy, actress, Riavanti Marsh!, Amici Miei

1950 Birthday - Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star, French 1976, Italian 1976

1947 Event - Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome

1946 Birthday - Sydne Rome, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, What?, Candy

1946 Event - Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister," premieres in New York City

1946 Event - Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome

1944 Birthday - 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 Event - Allies march into Rome

1944 Event - 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies

1944 Event - Nazis pull out of Rome

1944 Event - In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians

1944 Event - Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die

1943 Event - 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau

1943 Event - Anti Jewish riot in Rome

1943 Event - Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz

1943 Event - German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City

1943 Event - 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome

1943 Event - Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome

1943 Event - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1943 Birthday - Zoltan Jeney, born in Szolnok, Hungary, composer, minimalist style, studied with Ferenc Farkas in Budapest, Goffredo Petrassi, in Rome

1941 Birthday - Marina Ripa, Rome, Italy, countess/writer, My First 40 Years

1940 Birthday - Ira von Furstenberg, Virginia Caroline, Rome, Italy, Princess, Monaco

1936 Event - Italy, Austria and Hungary sign Pact of Rome

1934 Birthday - Sophia Loren, born in Rome, actress, Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid

1934 Event - Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome

1934 Event - Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)

1932 Birthday - Milly Vitale, born in Rome, actress, 7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler

1931 Birthday - Monica Vitti, Ceciarelli, Rome, Italy, actress, Tigers in Lipstick

1931 Birthday - Lucianna Paluzzi, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Five Fingers, Thunderball

1930 Birthday - Michael Collins, Rome, Major General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11

1930 Birthday - Ugo Gregoretti, Rome, Italy, actor, Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty

1930 Birthday - Silvana Mangano, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Death in Venice, Barabbas

1929 Event - Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome

1928 Birthday - Ennio Morricone, Rome, Italy, composer/musician

1928 Birthday - Lina Wertmueller, Arcanguela von Elgg, Rome, actress, 7 Beauties

1927 Birthday - 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 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Ettore Manni, Rome, Italy, actor, Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell

1926 Birthday - Cesare Danova, born in Rome, Italy, actor, Garrison's Gorillas

1925 Birthday - Silvana Pampanini, Rome, Italy, actress, Day in Court, Island Sinner

1924 Birthday - Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer, Sins of Rome

1924 Birthday - Marcello Mastroianni, Rome, Italy, actor, 8, La Dolce Vita

1924 Birthday - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome

1922 Event - Mussolini marches on Rome

1922 Event - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die

1921 Birthday - Jeff Donnell, born in South Windham, Maine, actor, Gidget Goes to Rome

1919 Birthday - John Secondari, Rome, Italy, newscaster, Open Hearing

1919 Birthday - Alberto Sordi, born in Rome, Italy, actor, Miser, Taxi Driver in New York

1917 Event - Domenico Scarlatti and Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome

1916 Birthday - Guido Turchi, Rome, Italy, composer, Invettiva

1914 Birthday - Kay Medford, born in New York City, actress, Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love

1912 Birthday - Renato Rascel, actor, 7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria

1912 Event - King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt

1910 Birthday - Richard Conte, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor, 4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel

1908 Birthday - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman, Club of Rome

1908 Birthday - Harold Rome, composer, Fanny, Pins and Needles

1907 Birthday - Renzo Cesana, Rome, Italy, TV host, First Date, Continental

1907 Event - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)

1906 Birthday - Andreina Pagnani, Rome, Italy, actress, Il Commandante

1906 Birthday - Roberto Rossellini, Rome, Italy, director, Open City

1906 Birthday - Jeffrey Lynn, actor, Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front

1901 Birthday - Enrico Fermi, born in Rome, U.S. physicist, gone fission/fermium, Nobel-1938

1900 Birthday - Salvatore Baccaloni, born in Rome, actor, Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby

1900 Event - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome

1898 Event - Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)

1898 Event - d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome

1896 Birthday - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, La marcia su Rome

1892 Birthday - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy, bass singer, South Pacific, RCA Victor Show

1890 Event - Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome

1888 Birthday - Donald Calthrop, London, actor, Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express

1879 Birthday - Ottorino Respighi, born in Bologna, Italy, composer, Pines of Rome

1870 Event - Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree

1870 Event - Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital

1870 Event - Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French

1869 Event - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome

1867 Event - Garibaldi marches on Rome

1864 Event - Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia

1860 Event - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX

1853 Event - Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome

1849 Event - Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike

1832 Death - Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte, l'aiglon, king of Rome, dies at 21

1821 Death - John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome

1820 Birthday - Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope, in Rome

1817 Event - Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome

1816 Event - Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome

1816 Event - Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome

1811 Birthday - Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, Napoleon's son/King of Rome

1795 Birthday - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome

1732 Event - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome

1680 Event - Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th

1671 Death - Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies

1667 Death - Georges de Scudery, French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at 65

1633 Event - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun

1633 Event - M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome

1626 Event - St-Petruskerk in Rome, initiated

1611 Birthday - Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome

1601 Event - Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome

1583 Death - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake

1556 Death - St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome

1532 Event - English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome

1527 Event - Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance

1524 Event - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome

1501 Event - Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna

1472 Event - Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow

1463 Death - Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65

1413 Event - King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome

1347 Event - Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal

1341 Event - Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome

1295 Event - Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome

1267 Event - Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV

1215 Event - 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1179 Event - 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1165 Event - Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome

1139 Event - 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1123 Event - 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1111 Event - German King Hendry V arrives at St. Peter, Rome

1105 Event - Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary

1083 Event - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St. Peter's Cathedral

1054 Event - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome

1003 Death - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome

875 Event - Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome

799 Event - Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome

537 Event - Goths lay siege to Rome

536 Event - Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten

455 Event - A D Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome

422 Death - Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies

417 Event - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome

410 Event - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire

410 Event - King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies and plunders Rome

404 Event - Last gladiator competition in Rome

401 Death - Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies

395 Death - Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49

394 Death - Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle

392 Death - Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21

383 Death - Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25

364 Death - Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32

363 Death - Flavius C Julianus, Apostata, emperor of Rome (361-63), dies

357 Event - Emperor Constantius II visits Rome

337 Death - Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome (306-37)/anti semite, dies

337 Death - Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47

336 Death - Marcus, bishop of Rome (336), dies

317 Birthday - Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome, 337-61

313 Death - Gaius G V Maximus, Daia, Emperor of Rome, dies

311 Death - Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50

307 Death - Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies

306 Event - Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome

306 Death - Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies

304 Death - Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, dies

284 Event - General Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome

276 Death - Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered

273 Death - Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274)

267 Death - Dionysius, bishop of Rome/saint, dies

259 Event - Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II

258 Death - Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded

257 Death - Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies

254 Death - Lucius I, bishop of Rome (253-54), dies

235 Event - Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down

235 Death - Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered

222 Death - Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18?

219 Event - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome

218 Death - Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54

211 Death - Lucius Septimus Severus, emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64

193 Death - Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61

193 Event - Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome

192 Death - Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31

180 Death - Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, dies at 58

161 Birthday - Lucius A. A. Coomodus, emperor of Rome, 180-91

161 Death - Antoninus Pius, Titus Aurelius, emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74

155 Death - Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies

135 Event - Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome

121 Birthday - Marcus Aurelius, born in Rome, Emperor of Rome, 161 - 180

117 Death - Mark Ulpius Trajanus, emperor of Rome (98-117)

98 Death - Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67

96 Death - Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45

89 Event - Governor Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome

81 Death - Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42

70 Event - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem

69 Event - General Vespasianus occupies Rome

69 Death - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered

68 Event - Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba

65 Event - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem

64 Event - Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire

64 Event - Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)

37 Birthday - Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus, 5th emperor of Rome, 54-68

37 Death - Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77

37 Birthday - Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero, emperor of Rome, 54-68

28 Event - Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome

13 Event - Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany













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