1924 in Italy

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Events in the year 1924 in the Kingdom of Italy.

Incumbents

King – Victor Emmanuel III
Prime Minister – Benito Mussolini

Events

File:Autostrada between Varese and Como.jpg

The Italian Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9), the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world,^[1]^[2] in 1925, the year following its inauguration.

27 January – Treaty of Rome (1924)^[3]
6 April – Italian general election, 1924
21 September – Inauguration of the Autostrada dei Laghi, the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world.^[1]^[2]
6 October – 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services

Sport

25 January to 5 February – Italy participated at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, with 23 competitors in 4 sports
4 May to 27 July – Italy participated at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Paris, with 200 competitors in 18 sports, winning a total of 16 medals (8 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze)

Unknown

– The Benito Mussolini government pass a law in 1924 requiring that every school display a Crucifix.^[4]^[5]

Births

File:Ignazio Colnaghi.jpg

Ignazio Colnaghi in 1959

9 January – Walkiria Terradura, anti-fascist partisan (d. 2023)^[6]
29 January – Luigi Nono, composer (d. 1990)^[7]
2 February – Ignazio Colnaghi, actor (d. 2017)^[8]
8 March – Walter Chiari, actor (d. 1991)
23 April – Rossana Rossanda, politician and journalist (d. 2020)
30 June – Maino Neri, footballer (d. 1995)
9 July – Domenico Pace, fencer (d. 2022)
13 July - Carlo Bergonzi, operatic tenor (d. 2014)
4 August – Antonio Maccanico, Italian constitutional specialist, social liberal politician (d. 2013)
25 August – Sergio Bergonzelli, director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2002)
19 September – Rosario Mazzola, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
8 November – Gino Scarpa, painter, printmaker and sculptor^[9] (d. 2022)
18 December – Alberto Ablondi, bishop (d. 2010)

Deaths

File:Portrait of Eleonora Duse.jpg

Eleonora Duse

8 April – Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, general, known for the Bava Beccaris massacre (b. 1831)
10 June – Giacomo Matteotti, politician (b. 1885)
17 July – Ricciotti Garibaldi, soldier (b. 1847)

Full date missing

Tito Conti, painter (b. 1842)^[10]
Francesco Franceschi, horticulturist (b. 1843)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Lenarduzzi, Thea (30 January 2016). "The motorway that built Italy: Piero Puricelli's masterpiece". The Independent. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "The "Milano-Laghi" by Piero Puricelli, the first motorway in the world". Retrieved 10 May 2022.
↑ "Fiume question | European history | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
↑ "Italians get emotional about crucifix". NBC News. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020.
↑ "ECtHR, Lautsi and Others v. Italy, Grand Chamber Decision, App. No. 30814/06 (2011), excerpt".
↑ Addio alla partigiana Walkiria Terradura (in Italian)
↑ Larry Sitsky (2002). Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-313-29689-5.
↑ "Obituary on Corriere della sera" (in italiano). 26 November 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
↑ Hurum, Vibeke. "Gino Scarpa". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in norsk). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
↑ Conti Tito

[independent-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Lenarduzzi, Thea (30 January 2016). "The motorway that built Italy: Piero Puricelli's masterpiece". The Independent. Retrieved 12 May 2022.

[motorwebmuseum-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "The "Milano-Laghi" by Piero Puricelli, the first motorway in the world". Retrieved 10 May 2022.

[3] "Fiume question | European history | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 22 January 2022.

[4] "Italians get emotional about crucifix". NBC News. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020.

[5] "ECtHR, Lautsi and Others v. Italy, Grand Chamber Decision, App. No. 30814/06 (2011), excerpt".

[6] Addio alla partigiana Walkiria Terradura (in Italian)

[7] Larry Sitsky (2002). Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-313-29689-5.

[8] "Obituary on Corriere della sera" (in italiano). 26 November 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2018.

[9] Hurum, Vibeke. "Gino Scarpa". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in norsk). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 5 August 2018.

[10] Conti Tito

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