ITALY Part 2

ITALY Part 2

2 April 1860 – The first Italian parliament met at Turin Italy was unified. The Rothschild’s banking empire bankrolled Italy’s independence. (Internet).

1930 – Mount Storomboli erupted and hurled 30 ton rocks onto houses three kilometres away. It caused a tidal wave as the island mountain rose. (Pac Disc spring 96 p30 and timelines internet).

23 July 1930 – An earthquake struck Ariano Italy which  killed 1,500 people. (mc 7/23/02 and timelines internet).

1948 – Elections in Italy in which the Communist party got 31% of the vote. (Econ 6/11/11 SR p9 and timelines internet).

1958 – A new law shut down state controlled brothels. (sfc 9/25/00 pA12 and timelines internet).

1976 – Soviet defector Golitsyn’s daughter died of a drug overdose in Italy.

6 May 1976 – There was an earthquake in northern Italy near the Austrian Yugoslav borders. It killed more than 1,000 people and left 80,000 homeless. (Timelines internet).

20 March 1979 – In Rome the mafia killed Mino Pocorelli, a journalist and magazine editor. (Timelines internet).

23 November 1980 – 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes in southern Italy. (AP 11/23/07 and timelines internet).

1981 – The terror network. The secret war of international terrorism. Claire Sterling. London UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson).

1983 – Mafia, peasants and great estates, society in traditional Calabria. Pino Arlacchi.

1985-91 – In Italy a mafia war during this time claimed 600 lives. Giovanni Tegano was a senior mafia in Reggio Calabria and a key participant. (Econ 5/8/10 p54 and Timelines internet).

23 September 1985 – Italian journalist Giancarlo Siani was killed after he wrote investigative reports about the mafia in Naples daily LL Mattino. (timelines internet).

10 February 1986 – The largest mafia trial in history with 474 defendants opened in Palermo. (AN 2/10/97 internet).

1990 – In Naples $60 million disappeared, in incomplete construction sites for the soccer world cup. (Timeline internet).

19 July 1992 – Paolo Dorsellino, an anti-mafia judge was murdered by the mafia. (mc 7/19/02 internet).

8 January 1993 – In Sicily a journalist named Beppe Alfano was killed by the mafia. He was born in 1945. (Timeline internet).

27 May 1993 – Italian police arrested mafia boss Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola. (timeline internet).

1994 – Roberto Pannunzi Italian mafia was arrested in Colombia. He had links to Colombian cartels for trade in cocaine. He was extradited to Italy and released. He had a heart attack and disappeared in 2009. (Timeline internet).

1995 – Italian genealogical records and ecclesiastical. Trafford R Cole. Ancestry inc. Italian record keeping history and development. .POBox 476 Salt Lake city Utah USA. Google books.

1995 – The Italian port Gioia Tauro began handling container ships. The local mafia ‘Ndranghetta extorted $1.50 for every container. (Timelines internet)

1996 – The Sicilian mafia. The business of private protection. Diego Faubetta.

1997 – Six Naples mafia were sentenced to life terms for the murder of journalist Giancarlo Siani in Naples in 1985. (Timeline internet).

26 September 1997 – A court in Sicily convicted 24 mafia for the 1992 bombing of anti-mafia prosecutor Salvatore Toto Riina. (timeline internet).

1998 – Mafia money and politics in Sicily 1950-1997. Rene Seindel.

11 February 1998 – President Yeltsin visited Italy for three days and  $5 billion in trade and investment contracts. (timeline internet).

2000 – British MP Gerard Batten, from the UK Independence party, also became an acquaintance of Latvinenko’s, who was in his constituent. Before fleeing Russia in 2000 Litvinenko spoke to Colonel General Anatolly Trofimov, who was a former deputy chief of the FSB. Trofimov told Litvinenko, don’t go to Italy, there are many KGB agents where among the politicians. Romano Prodi, then PM of Italy, former head of the EC, is our man there, he said. Trofimov and his wife were murdered in Moscow in 2005. (Neil MacKay 27 November 2006 Russia’s new Cold war).

2001 – Countering terrorism through international cooperation. Alex Schmid. UN Rome. International scientific and professional advisory council of the UN, the UN terrorism prevention branch.

16 April 2002 – Afghanistan’s former King, Mohammad Zaher Shah, returns to Kabul after 29 years of exile in Italy.