2006 in Italy

none 2006 Events during the year 2006 in Italy. Incumbents President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (until 15 May) Giorgio Napolitano (from 15 May) Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi (until 17 May) Romano Prodi (from 17 May) Events January – March 2 January – Russia–Ukraine gas dispute: Italy supplies are down by 30%. (Sky News) 19 January – Italy will conclude its mission in Iraq by the end of the year, in the first clear timetable for Rome to withdraw its troops, says Defense Minister Antonio Martino. (ABC) 20 January – Archeologists digging under the Roman Forum discover a tomb estimated at 3000 years old, predating the creation of the Forum by several centuries. (USA Today) 10 February – An atheist who sued a small-town priest for saying that Jesus Christ existed has had his case thrown out of court by a judge in Italy. (BBC) 10–26 February – The Olympic Winter Games are held in Turin. 11 February – H5N1 avian flu virus: first cases of infected wild birds reported in Italy, swans thought to have migrated from Russia in recent months. (BBC) 12 February – Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi causes a political storm by comparing himself to Jesus Christ. (BBC) 15 February – Italian ambassador Francesco Trupiano apologizes to Libya on behalf of Italian minister of Constitutional Reform Roberto Calderoli, who suggested Italy use "force against Muslims." (Angola Press) 17 February – In Libya, at least eleven protesters are killed in riots protesting the Muhammad cartoons outside the Italian consulate in Benghazi, which is burned. (MSNBC) 18 February – Reform minister Roberto Calderoli resigns after criticism for wearing a T-shirt depicting the Muhammad cartoons. (BBC) 2 March – Judges in Milan to charge Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and David Mills (husband of Tessa Jowell, a British Minister) in connection with a bribery scandal. (Independent) 3 March – An Italian parliamentary commission accuses the former Soviet Union of orchestrating the 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II (Telegraph) https://web.archive.org/web/20080109175917/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2006%2F03%2F03%2Fwpope03.xml&sSheet=%2Fnews%2F2006%2F03%2F03%2Fixworld.html 2008-01-09 10–19 March – The Paralympic Winter Games are held in Turin. 29 March – Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman takes political asylum in Italy. Many Islamic clerics and members of Afghanistan's parliament protest his release. (MSNBC), (BBC) April – June 9–10 April – General election: Romano Prodi, leader of the centre-left coalition The Union, narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms. 11 April – Bernardo Provenzano captured near Corleone. 2 May – Murder of Tommaso Onofri 8-10 May – Presidential election 18 May – New Italian prime minister Romano Prodi pledges to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq and calls the Iraq war a "grave mistake that has not solved but increased the problem of security". (Guardian) (Al Jazeera) 28–29 May – Local elections 1 June – The new Justice Minister, Clemente Mastella, announces that left-wing militant Adriano Sofri could be pardoned before the end of the year (AGI). 16 June – Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, is arrested as part of an investigation into corruption and prostitution. (BBC) 23 June – After 16 years in office, Angelo Sodano retires as Cardinal Secretary of State. He will be succeeded by Tarcisio Bertone, until now Archbishop of Genoa. (Holy See Bollettino) 25-26 June – Constitutional referendum about federalization: rejected by 61%. July – September 9 July – Italy wins the FIFA World Cup by defeating France, 5–3, following a penalty shootout in the final game at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany.https://www.rsssf.org/tables/2006full.html World Cup 2006 en 9 July 2006 RSSSF 1 July 2020 13 July – Two explosions hit oil installations belonging to an Italian company in Nigeria's southeast region. Sabotage is the suspected cause. (Associated Press) 11 August – Transatlantic aircraft plot: 40 people have been arrested throughout Italy, in Muslim communities "as part of an extraordinary operation that followed the British anti-terrorist operation." (Fox News) 13 August – Air Algérie Flight 2208 accident 21 August – 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: Italy offers to lead the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon instead of France. Italy has offered to provide 2,000 forces, more than any other nation, and France is only offering to provide 200 civil engineers. (UPI) 2 September – Italian troops arrive in Lebanon as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. (CNN)August 2026 InternetArchiveBot October – December 3 October – Turkish Airlines Flight 1476, a Turkish Airlines plane carrying 113 people from Tirana, Albania to Istanbul, Turkey, was hijacked, but lands at Italy's Brindisi Airport. The hijackers surrendered and were arrested by Italian police. (Fox News) 11 October – Carlo Acutis, a 15 year old boy dies of acute promyelocytic leukaemia in San Gerardo Hospital north of Milan, Italy. He is canonised on 7 September 2025 and has been referred to as the "patron saint of the Internet", "God's Influencer" and the "first millennial saint". 16 October – UN Security Council election: Italy is among countries elected by The United Nations General Assembly to two-year terms on the Security Council, commencing 1 January 2007. (BBC) 17 October – 2006 Rome Metro crash 27 October – Murder of Riccardo Rasman 26 November – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi collapses while giving a speech in Tuscany and has to be carried from the podium by his aides. Doctors treating him afterwards blamed a sudden drop in blood pressure. (BBC News) 2 December – London police are examining whether the killers of Alexander Litvinenko also tried to poison Mario Scaramella, an Italian security expert who met the Russian exile on the day that he fell ill. (The Times) https://web.archive.org/web/20061213202436/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2482990,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=World 2006-12-13 7 December – Nigerian gun men attack an Agip oil terminal in the Niger River delta and take three Italians hostage. (Reuters) 11 December – Erba Massacre 15 December – Retired Formula One driver Clay Regazzoni dies in a car accident when the Chrysler Voyager he was driving hit a lorry head on, outside Parma, Italy. (BBC) Full date unknown Drug Target Insights academic journal is founded.https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/libertas-academica-journals Libertas Academica Journals to be published by SAGE 19 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20170202105318/https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/libertas-academica-journals 2017-02-02 dead Births 14 March – Simone Pafundi, footballer 25 May – Lorenzo Galossi, swimmer 6 June – Angela Andreoli, artistic gymnast 25 August – Andrea Kimi Antonelli, racing driver 9 October – Matteo Santoro, diver 2 November – Manila Esposito, footballer 7 November – Giulia Dragoni, footballer 15 November – Lara Colturi, alpine skier Deaths thumb|right|100 px | Jenny Tamburi thumb|right|100 px |Ondina Valla thumb|right|100 px |Milly Vitale 1 March – Jenny Tamburi, actress and television hostess (b. 1952).http://www.iltempo.it/cultura-spettacoli/2006/03/02/news/addio-a-jenny-tamburi-diva-dell-erotico-soft-380658/ Addio a Jenny Tamburi diva dell'erotico soft 2 March 2006 Il Tempo it 10 November 2019 5 April – Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923).http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmacchi.html Archbishop Pasquale Macchi David M. Cheney Catholic Hierarchy 10 November 2019 22 April – Alida Valli, actress (b. 1921).http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4935322.stm Italian actress Alida Valli dies 22 April 2006 BBC News 10 November 2019 11 May – Ferdinando Tacconi, comics artist (b. 1922).http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1147462271,72109,.htm Ferdinando Tacconi passed away afNews 10 November 2019 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061938/http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1147462271,72109,.htm 28 September 2007 9 June – Enzo Siciliano, writer (b. 1934).http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/06_Giugno/09/siciliano.shtml Morto a Roma lo scrittore Enzo Siciliano 9 June 2006 Corriere della Sera 10 November 2019 15 June – Betty Curtis, singer (b. 1936) 12 July – Loredana Nusciak, actress and model (b. 1942).http://ricerca.gelocal.it/ilpiccolo/archivio/ilpiccolo/2006/07/12/NZ_10_MISS.html Addio a Loredana, Miss Trieste 1959 che recitò con Sordi e Franco Nero 12 July 2006 Il Piccolo it 10 November 2019 6 October 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141006093919/http://ricerca.gelocal.it/ilpiccolo/archivio/ilpiccolo/2006/07/12/NZ_10_MISS.html dead 20 July – Ugo Attardi, painter, sculptor and writer (b. 1923).http://www.repubblica.it/2006/07/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/morto-attardi/morto-attardi/morto-attardi.html E' morto lo scultore Ugo Attardi maestro di espressionismo e astrattismo 21 July 2006 La Repubblica it 10 November 2019 31 July – Mario Faustinelli, comic book artist (b. 1924).http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1154590334,71370,.htm 3 August 2006 Mario Faustinelli passed away afNews 10 November 2019 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070928062140/http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1154590334,71370,.htm 28 September 2007 20 August – Giuseppe Moccia, film director (b. 1933) 15 September – Sergio Savarese, furniture designer (b. 1958).https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/nyregion/18savarese.html Sergio Savarese, 48, Dies in a Plane Crash; Designer Employed Informal Shapes in Break From Past Barbara Graustark 18 September 2006 The New York Times 10 November 2019 17 September – Leonella Sgorbati, nun (b. 1940).http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article642421.ece 18 September 2006 Nun shot dead as Pope fails to calm militant Muslims The Times 10 November 2019 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080709065407/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article642421.ece 9 July 2008 12 October – Carlo Acutis, English-born Italian Catholic computer programmer (b. 1991)https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/europe/blessed-carlo-acutis-doctors-recall-his-last-days-in-hospital Blessed Carlo Acutis' doctors recall his last days October 12, 2021 Courtney Mares Catholic News Agency January 17, 2022 16 October – Ondina Valla, hurdler (b. 1916).https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-17-me-passings17.2-story.html 17 October 2006 Ondina Valla, 90; Hurdler Was the First Woman From Italy to Win an Olympic Gold Medal Los Angeles Times 10 November 2019 25 October – Emilio Vedova, painter (b. 1919).https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/28/guardianobituaries.italy Emilio Vedova Christopher Masters 27 November 2006 The Guardian 10 November 2019 2 November – Milly Vitale, actress (b. 1933).http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3ihluoYm83KivSMTdhxBVVzQ%3D%3D Lyman Eric J. 3 November 2006 Italian actress Vitale dies at 74 The Hollywood Reporter 10 November 2019 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20061108190056/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3ihluoYm83KivSMTdhxBVVzQ%3D%3D 8 November 2006 25 November – Luciano Bottaro, comic book creator (b. 1931).http://www.komix.it/page.php?idArt=5176 Di Giorgi Emanuele Luciano Bottaro e i suoi mondi fantastici Disney e non solo Komix.it it 10 November 2019 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110722041215/http://www.komix.it/page.php?idArt=5176 22 July 2011 26 November – Leo Chiosso, songwriter (b. 1920).http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=136831 Addio a Leo Chiosso, il duro che ispirò Buscaglione Antonio Lodetti 27 November 2006 Il Giornale it 10 November 2019 Giorgio Panto, television station owner and politician, (b. 1941).http://www.repubblica.it/2006/11/sezioni/cronaca/morte-panto/morte-panto/morte-panto.html 26 November 2006 Elicottero precipita in Laguna muore l'editore Giorgio Panto la Repubblica it 10 November 2019 28 November – Primo Volpi, 90, Italian cyclist (b. 1916).http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8162 https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122501/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8162 usurped April 2, 2015 Primo Volpi Cycling Archives.com 10 November 2019 13 December – Mario Ravagnan, fencer (b. 1930).https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/mario-ravagnan-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230650/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/mario-ravagnan-1.html dead 17 April 2020 Mario Ravagnan Bio, Stats, and Results Olympics at Sports-Reference.com 10 November 2019 28 December – Nicola Granieri, fencer (b. 1942).https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/nicola-granieri-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200417193155/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/nicola-granieri-1.html dead 17 April 2020 Nicola Granieri Bio, Stats, and Results Olympics at Sports-Reference.com 10 November 2019 Aroldo Tieri, actor (b. 1917).http://www.repubblica.it/2006/12/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/aroldo-tieri/aroldo-tieri/aroldo-tieri.html Lutto nel mondo del teatro è morto l'attore Aroldo Tieri 29 December 2006 la Repubblica 10 November 2019 See also 2006 in Italian television References 2006 Category:2000s in Italy Category:Years of the 21st century in Italy Italy Italy