1928 in Italy

← 1927 1926 1925 1928 in Italy → 1929 1930 1931
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events during the year 1928 in Italy.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister: Benito Mussolini

Events

• 12 April – A bomb, directed against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, kills 18 people at the Milan Trade Fair. ^[1]
• 24 May – The airship Italia reaches the North Pole, with expedition leader Umberto Nobile on board. The ship crashes on its return journey. ^[2]
• 24 June – Umberto Nobile and survivors of the crash of the airship Italia are rescued by the crew of a Swedish aeroplane.
• 2 August – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.

Births

• 2 January – Alberto Zedda, conductor and musicologist (died 2017) ^[3]
• 9 January – Domenico Modugno, singer, songwriter, actor and politician (died 1994) ^[4]
• 5 June – Umberto Maglioli, racing driver (died 1999)
• 6 June – Elio Sgreccia, cardinal (died 2019) ^[5]
• 29 June – Alfredo Biondi, politician and lawyer (died 2020)
• 4 July – Giampiero Boniperti, footballer (died 2021) ^[6]
• 26 July – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (died 2010) ^[7]
• 13 September – Franzo Grande Stevens, lawyer (died 2025)
• 16 October – Nando Gazzolo, actor (died 2015)
• 22 December
  • Piero Angela, writer, journalist and television presenter ^[8]
  • Luisa Massimo, pediatrician (died 2016)

Deaths

• 28 February – Armando Diaz, 66, general, Marshal of Italy
• 31 March – Medardo Rosso, 70, sculptor
• 25 May (lost in the crash of the airship Italia) ^[2]
  • Aldo Pontremoli, 32, physicist
  • Renato Alessandrini, 37, explorer
• 17 July – Giovanni Giolitti, 85, 13th Prime Minister of Italy ^[9]

References

1. Jonathan Dunnage (2012). Mussolini's Policemen: Behaviour, Ideology and Institutional Culture in Representation and Practice. Oxford University Press. p. 38. ISBN   978-0-7190-8139-2.
2. Basil Collier (1974). The airship: a history . Putnam. p.  261. ISBN   978-0-399-11430-4.
3. David Salazar (7 March 2017). "Obituary: Rossini Specialist Alberto Zedda Passes Away At 89". OperaWire. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
4. Gino Moliterno (11 September 2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 526. ISBN   978-1-134-75876-0.
5. "Sgreccia Card. Elio". Holy See Press Office. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
6. Gigi Garanzini. "BONIPERTI, Giampiero" (in Italian). Treccani: Enciclopedia dello Sport (2002). Retrieved 20 June 2021.
7. Michael Ellul (1998). History on Marble: A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Presidential Palaces in Valletta, San Anton and Verdala, Malta. PEG, Publishers enterprises group. p. 477. ISBN   978-99909-0-103-0.
8. Ravizza, Simona (1 July 2010). "Piero Angela "Sono del 28 e guido bene, più pericolosi i ragazzi"" [PIERO ANGELA "I'm from 1928 and I drive well, young people are more dangerous"]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian): 27. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 24 Oct 2019.
9. Giovanni Giolitti, DIZIONARIO BIOGRAFICO