1980 in Italy

Events during the year 1980 in Italy

Incumbents President – Sandro Pertini Prime Minister – Francesco Cossiga (until 18 October); Arnaldo Forlani (after 18 October)

Events 6 January – Piersanti Mattarella, president of Sicily, killed by the Mafia in Palermo. 7 to 9 February – Sanremo Music Festival 1980: Toto Cutugno wins with the song "Solo noi". 13 to 24 February – Italy at the 1980 Winter Olympics, in Lake Placid: 46 competitors, 34 men and 12 women, in 8 sports, winning 2 Silver medals. March – Totonero match-fixing scandal. 19 April – Eurovision Song Contest 1980 in The Hague, Netherlands: Alan Sorrenti is sixth-placed with Non so che darei. 11 May – 1979–80 Serie A: Inter Milan wins 12th title. 8 and 9 June – 1980 Italian regional elections and 1980 Italian local elections. 11 to 22 June – UEFA Euro 1980 held in Italy. 27 June – Ustica Massacre: Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea mid-flight from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 people on board. 19 July to 3 August – Italy at the 1980 Summer Olympics, in Moscow: Italy competed under the Olympic Flag, in partial support of American-led boycott. There were 159 competitors, 121 men and 38 women, in 88 events in 19 sports, winning 8 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze medals. 2 August – A terrorist attack at Bologna Centrale railway station kills 85 people and injures over 200. 17 October – Giarre murder. 18 October – Forlani government is formed (until June 1981), after Second Cossiga government fell due to the rejection of the 1980 Budget by Parliament. 23 November – A magnitude-6.9 earthquake kills 2,483, injures 7,700, and displaces hundreds of thousands. The Name of the Rose, debut novel by Umberto Eco is published. Altri Libertini, a romanzo a episodi by Pier Vittorio Tondelli is published.

Birth 19 January – Anna Incerti, runner 21 February – Tiziano Ferro, singer, songwriter 17 June – Elisa Rigaudo, race walker 23 June – Francesca Schiavone, tennis player 26 July – Giulia Pignolo, sailor 30 July – Roberto Cammarelle, boxer 6 August – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Formula One driver (or in 1981) 19 September – Roland Fischnaller, snowboarder 25 September – Elio Germano, actor 7 October – Clarissa Claretti, hammer thrower 27 November – Dargen D'Amico, rapper 25 December – Guè, rapper 29 December – Nesli, rapper

Deaths 1 January Aldo Aimi, footballer (b. 1906) Pietro Nenni, politician (b. 1891) 6 January – Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935)Schneider, Jane T. & Peter T. Schneider (2003). Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo, Berkeley: University of California Press page=158 9 January – Gaetano Belloni, road racing cyclist (b. 1892) 22 January – Teresa Noce, labour leader, activist and journalist (b. 1900) 27 January – Peppino De Filippo, actor (b. 1903) 28 January – Franco Evangelisti, composer (b. 1926) 1 February – Gastone Nencini, road racing cyclist (b. 1930) 7 February – Secondo Campini, jet pioneer (b. 1904) 21 February – Aldo Andreotti, mathematician (b. 1924) 26 February – Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898) 30 March – Mantovani, Italian British conductor, composer (b. 1905) 14 April – Gianni Rodari, writer and journalist (b. 1920) 6 August – Marino Marini, sculptor (b. 1901) 14 August – Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright (b. 1911) 29 August – Franco Basaglia, psychiatrist, disability advocate (b. 1924)

See also List of Italian films of 1980 1980 in Italian television List of number-one hits of 1980 (Italy)

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