1924 in Italy

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See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events in the year 1924 in the Kingdom of Italy .

Incumbents

• King – Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister – Benito Mussolini

Events

The Italian Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway" in the 1950s; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9), the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world

• 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

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)
• 12 August – Lucy Salani, political activist (d. 2023) ^[9]
• 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 ^[10] (d. 2022)
• 18 December – Alberto Ablondi, bishop (d. 2010)

Deaths

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) ^[11]
• Francesco Franceschi, horticulturist (b. 1843)

References

1. Lenarduzzi, Thea (30 January 2016). "The motorway that built Italy: Piero Puricelli's masterpiece". The Independent . Retrieved 12 May 2022.
2. "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 Italian). 26 November 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
9. Transgender Holocaust survivor dies aged 99
10. Hurum, Vibeke. "Gino Scarpa". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
11. Conti Tito