1984 in Italy

none 1984 Events from the year 1984 in Italy Incumbents President: Sandro Pertini Prime Minister: Bettino Craxi (First Craxi government) Events February 2 to 4 February – Sanremo Music Festival 1984: Al Bano and Romina Power with "Ci sarà" win Big Artists section; Eros Ramazzotti wins newly established Newcomers section with the song "Terra promessa".Eddy Anselmi Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana 2009 Panini Comics, 2009 978-8863462296 8 to 19 February – Italy at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia: 74 competitors in 9 sports, 2 Gold medals (Paul Hildgartner and Paoletta Magoni). 18 February – Revision of Lateran Treaty (1929) signed: Catholic religion is not the sole religion of the Italian State.2 September 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20200922053313/http://home.lu.lv/~rbalodis/Baznicu%20tiesibas/Akti/Arvalstis_ligumi/Italijas%26Sv.Kresla_konkordats.pdf 22 September 2020 live http://home.lu.lv/~rbalodis/Baznicu%20tiesibas/Akti/Arvalstis_ligumi/Italijas&Sv.Kresla_konkordats.pdf The American Society of International Law Agreement between the Italian Republic and the Holy See (English translation) May 5 May – Eurovision Song Contest 1984 in Luxembourg: 5th place for Alice and Franco Battiato for "I treni di Tozeur". 13 May – 1983–84 Serie A ends: Juventus FC wins 21st title. June 7 June – Enrico Berlinguer, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party, suffered a brain haemorrhage while giving a speech at a public meeting in Padua; he dies four days later. 13 June – Berlinguer funeral in Rome, around one million people attended. (List of largest funerals) 17 June – 1984 European Parliament election in Italy: only time that Communists placed first in a national election. 24 June – Antonio Bisaglia, Christian Democrat Senator, drowns off the coast of Santa Margherita Ligure. Alessandro Natta is new General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (until 1988). 28 June – Tommaso Buscetta extradited from Brasil. (→ Maxi Trial from 1986) July 5 July – Diego Maradona welcomed in Naples. He plays for SSC Napoli until 1991. 28 July to 12 August – Italy at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA: 268 competitors in 23 sports; 14 Gold, 6 Silver, 12 Bronze medals. August 26 August – Eight people were killed in Torre Annunziata in a massacre linked to the Camorra.https://fondazionegiancarlosiani.it/la-condanna-a-morte/ La condanna a morte Fondazione Giancarlo Siani it 5 May 2026 27 August – Fininvest buys Rete 4 television channel. 9 September – 1984 Italian Grand Prix held at Monza Circuit, won by Austrian Niki Lauda. October 16 October – Three judges, in Turin, Pescara and Rome, order private (Silvio Berlusconi's) TV networks to be closed. 20 October – Craxi government passes an emergency decree legalising the nationwide transmissions made by Berlusconi's television stations November November – Aftermath of Golpe Borghese (1970): all 46 defendants were acquitted on the appeal trial because the "fact did not happen" and only existed in "a private meeting between four or five sixty-years-olds".it Il golpe Borghese. Storia di un'inchiesta https://web.archive.org/web/20160821085054/http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx 21 August 2016 , La storia siamo noi, Rai Educational (accessed 24 February 2011)it E la Cia disse: sì al golpe Borghese ma soltanto con Andreotti premier, La Repubblica, 5 December 2005 December 23 December – Train 904 bombing: 16 killed, 266 wounded by the Sicilian Mafia. Births 30 July – Barbara Berlusconi, business executive Deaths 11 June – Enrico Berlinguer, 62, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party 24 June – Antonio Bisaglia, 55, Christian Democrat Senator See also 1984 in Italian television List of Italian films of 1984 References 1984 Category:1980s in Italy Category:Years of the 20th century in Italy Italy Italy