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2011 Event - Venice, Italy hosts the 68th Venice International Film Festival

2010 Death - Dennis Hopper, actor, True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider, dies in Venice, California, of prostate cancer, at age 74

1989 Death - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59

1986 Death - Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75

1978 Event - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I

1977 Birthday - Taliesin Jaffe, Venice California, actor, Willy-Hail to the Chief

1967 Event - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open

1966 Event - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open

1961 Birthday - Venice Kong, St. Mary Jamaica, playmate, September, 1985

1956 Event - Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice

1954 Event - B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice

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

1951 Event - Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice

1946 Birthday - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor and composer, Sunnyata

1945 Event - Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies

1941 Birthday - Terence Hill, born in Venice, Italy, actor, Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity

1940 Death - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68

1938 Birthday - Gary Collins, born in Venice, California, actor, 6th Sense, Home Show

1931 Birthday - John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone, Death in Venice

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

1926 Event - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped

1924 Birthday - Luigi Nono, Venice Italy, composer, Canonic Variations

1920 Birthday - Dirk Bogarde, born in London, England, actor, Death in Venice, Servant

1914 Event - Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"

1910 Birthday - Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor, Death in Venice

1906 Birthday - Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice

1905 Birthday - Annunzio Mantovani, born in Venice, Italy, orchestra leader, Mantovani

1903 Event - Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X

1903 Birthday - Ashley Clarke, president, Venice in Peril Fund

1883 Death - Richard Wagner, German composer (Die Walkure), dies at 69 in Venice

1876 Birthday - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer

1874 Birthday - Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario, Merchant of Venice

1857 Event - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice

1853 Event - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice

1851 Event - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice

1849 Event - Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence

1844 Event - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice

1830 Event - V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice

1824 Event - Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice

1823 Event - Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice

1750 Event - Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice

1718 Event - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey and Venice sign peace treaty

1699 Event - Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey

1684 Event - Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz

1682 Birthday - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter, Fortune Teller

1682 Event - Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London

1678 Birthday - Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer, 4 Seasons

1652 Birthday - Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved

1649 Event - Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice

1630 Event - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague

1616 Death - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies

1580 Death - Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71

1573 Event - Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty

1571 Event - Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League

1540 Event - Venice/Turkey signs peace

1540 Event - Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

1527 Event - Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice

1526 Event - Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac

1516 Event - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice

1511 Event - Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss

1510 Event - Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice

1509 Event - Venice recaptures Padua

1509 Event - Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice

1509 Event - France declares war on Venice

1508 Event - League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)

1499 Event - France and Venice sign treaty against Milan

1495 Event - Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella and Venice sign anti-French Saint League

1454 Event - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi

1358 Event - Dalmatie flees Venice

1177 Event - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III

1094 Death - St. Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice

1085 Event - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated

421 Event - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded

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