1989 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59
1986 Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1977 Taliesin Jaffe, Venice California, actor, Willy-Hail to the Chief
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
1961 Venice Kong, St. Mary Jamaica, playmate, September, 1985
1956 Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
1954 B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice
1953 Eleonora Giorgi, Rome, Italy, actress, Nu de Femme, To Forget Venice
1951 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
1946 Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor and composer, Sunnyata
1945 Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies
1941 Terence Hill, born in Venice, Italy, actor, Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity
1940 Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
1938 Gary Collins, born in Venice, California, actor, 6th Sense, Home Show
1931 John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone, Death in Venice
1930 Silvana Mangano, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Death in Venice, Barabbas
1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
1924 Luigi Nono, Venice Italy, composer, Canonic Variations
1920 Dirk Bogarde, born in London, England, actor, Death in Venice, Servant
1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1910 Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor, Death in Venice
1906 Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice
1905 Annunzio Mantovani, born in Venice, Italy, orch leader, Mantovani
1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
1903 Ashley Clarke, president, Venice in Peril Fund
1883 Richard Wagner, German composer (Die Walkure), dies at 69 in Venice
1876 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer
1874 Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario, Merchant of Venice
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice
1849 Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
1844 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice
1830 V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1824 Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
1823 Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice
1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice
1718 Emperor Karel VI, Turkey and Venice sign peace treaty
1699 Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey
1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter, Fortune Teller
1682 Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London
1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer, 4 Seasons
1652 Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved
1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1616 Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies
1580 Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1573 Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty
1571 Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1540 Venice/Turkey signs peace
1540 Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1527 Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
1526 Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac
1516 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1511 Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss
1510 Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice
1509 Venice recaptures Padua
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1509 France declares war on Venice
1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1499 France and Venice sign treaty against Milan
1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella and Venice sign anti-French Saint League
1454 Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1358 Dalmatie flees Venice
1177 Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III
1094 St. Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice
1085 San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
421 Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
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