ITALY

4-15 Oct 1582 – Italy end Julian calendar 4 Oct 1582, beginning Gregorian calendar 15 Oct 1582. (Ancestry march april 2007 p21).

1820-1905 – Palermo Italy marriages 1820-1895 and births 1896-1905, in Italian. (NZ society of genealogists inc. nov-dec 2011 p252).

9 Jan 1848 – A peoples uprising took place in Palermo Sicily. (Timeline internet).

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

1878 – Salvatore D’Aquila born 1878 Sicily. Died 10 Oct 1928 New York city. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Farerra ©2011 US).

25 August 1882 – Rosario Ario Farulla born 25 Aug 1882 Villarosa Sicily. Died Feb 1971 Italy. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

26 Jan 1891 – Frank Costello born 26 Jan 1891 Calabrie Italy. Died 18 Feb 1973 New York city 82 years old heart attack. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Farerra ©2011 US).

10 Sept 1891 – Frank Garofalo born 10 Sept 1891 Castellammare Del Golfo Sicily. He arrived in New York city aged 29 on 26 May 1921 on the ship “SS Providence”. In June 1968 Frank Garofalo disappeared. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

1897 – Alphonso Attardi was born in Porto Empedocle Sicily Italy. He died in 1972 New York USA. (Manhattan mafia guide Weic Ferarra ©2011 USA)_.

16 April 1897 – Joseph Biondo was born 16 April 1897 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Sicily. He died on 10 June 1966 in New York city USA. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

27 Nov 1897 – Vito Genovese born 22 Nov 1897 Naples Italy. Died 14 Feb 1969 Springfield Missouri. Immigrated to New York city about 1914. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

1898 – Joseph Biondo emigrated to the US from Italy as a baby in 1898. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

22 Feb 1907 – Natale Evola born 22 Feb 1907 Sicily. Died 28 Aug 1973 Brooklyn New York. Immigrated to New York city on the “SS Indiana” on 3 June 1913. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US.)

18 Oct 1907 – Matildo Buia was born 18 Oct 1907 in Castellammare Sicily. He died on 23 Nov 1988 in New York City USA. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

16 Nov 1908 – Joseph Cataldo was born 16 Nov 1908 in Basilicata Italy. He died July 1980 in New York city USA. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

12 Nov 1909 – Alfred Joseph Embarrato born 12 Nov 1909 Adrano Sicily. Died 21 Feb 2001 Fairfax Virginia. Immigrated to New York city in 19 Nov 1914 aged 5 on the “Taormina”. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

13 June 1911 – Thomas Vito Michael Eboli born 13 June 1911 Scisciano Italy. Died 16 July 1972 Brooklyn New York Unsolved murder. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

8 July 1915 – German spies in Italy. The Times London UK.

1930 – Mount Storomboli erupted and hurled 30 ton rocks onto houses 3km away caused a tidal wave as the island mountain rose. (PacDisc spring 96 p30 timelines internet)

23 July 1930 – Earthquake struck Ariano 1,500 people were killed (mc 7/23/02 timelines internet).

23 July 1930 – Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed. (Christchurch Star NZ).

3 Sept 1934 – Gianfranco Tizzoni was born in Nettuno Italy. He was Robert Trimbole’s partner selling drugs in Australia. (Crims in grass castles ©2009 Keith Moor Aust).

1943 – Invasion of Sicily. Lucky Luciano, the American invasion restored the mafia to its pre-Fascist-era power and left them the de facto government of much of Italy. (Money and power ©2001 S Denton R Morris US).

16 Oct 1943 – Jews in Rome are rounded up with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

March 1944 – Mount Vesuvius most serious recent eruption, killed 26 people and  shattered dozens of aircraft mid air. (History Today. March 2013 UK).

October 1944 – March 1945 – The Nazis were facing defeat in Europe as the Allies pushed towards victory. Angleton was transferred to Rome Italy as the commanding officer off special counter intelligence unit 2. A detachment of US and UK personel,

 activated towards the end of the war to arrest enemy agents. In March 1945 he was promoted to first lieutenant and made chief of X-2 for all of Italy. At age 27 he was the youngest X-2 branch chief in all of OSS. He was the only American in Italy cleared to share the intelligence secrets of the top secret Ultra. Allied victory in Europe in May 1945.

1945 – Summer, American military were sent to bases in Italy. A major American military base was in Pomigliano Ital,y north of Naples. (Ancestry July August 2007 p66).

November 1945 – With 1,771,000 members in Italy by the end of 1945, the Communist party was the largest political party in Italy. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).

1946 – The history of the Jews of Italy. Cecil Roth. Jewish publication society of America. Sicilian Jewry.

19 December 1947 – One of the first directives passed was NSC 4/A ordered Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoeter, the new director of the CIA to use covert methods to prevent a Communist victory in Italy. The elections of 1948 were a target with propaganda, secret payments and training equipment. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).

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

April 1948 – Newly formed CIA manipulate, Italian elections, covert efforts. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

23 December 1949 – Rocco Barbaro was born in Plati Italy. Marijuana crop on his farm near Griffith Australia. Calabrian mafia. (Crims in grass castles ©2009 Keith Moor Aust.)

1958 – A new law shut down state controlled brothels. (SFC 9/25/00 pa12 timelines internet).

1961 – The Fiat cars were called Zhigulis in Russia and Ladas when they went for export. Rolling out of a factory called Togliatti in Italy. A KGB correspondent in Rome Vladimir Volodya Yermakov of Pravda. A KGB journalist Valya Kovanoiv in Italy. Leonid Sergeyevich Kolosov was a KGB agent in Rome in the mid 1960’s. The KGB was directing movimento sociale hiliano MSI and Enrico Berlinguer of the Italian Communist party. (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womack).

1962-66 – A deal between Italy and the Soviet Union whereby Fiat helped them build a giant car factory on the river Volga at a place called Togliatti, after the Italian Communist party leader Palmiro Togliatti.  In 1962 Mario Alicata was editor of the Communist newspaper Unita. In 1963 the left was led by Enrico Berlinguer who seized power in Italy. The US had military bases in Italy. Building an auto plant to produce cheap cars for the Soviet market. Fiat was the Soviet governments partner. In spring 1966 a study of Fiat by Soviet journalist Marietta Shaginyan .Villorio Valetta was general director of Fiat in Italy. A general strike was held. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

26 January 1962 – Lucky Luciano dies of a heart attack in Naples Italy, possible poisoning. (Wiki organised crime timeline).

13 June 1962 – Simone Scozzan underboss of the Los Angeles crime family is deported to Italy. (Wiki organised crime timeline).

October 1962 – The death of Enrico Mattei the president of the National oil company Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ENI in Sicily Italy. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

October 1962 – At the beginning of the 1960’s countries benefiting from the Marshall plan were banned from supplying certain goods to the Soviet Union. Drilling equipment for oil and gas, and pipes to carry fuel. Enrico Mattei supplied pipes in exchange for Soviet gas. He had plans to supply the Soviet Union with more equipment in exchange for Soviet oil. In 1967 a journalist from local paper Ora said Mauro de Mauro was investigating the murder of the Italian king of oil. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

28 Oct 1962 – The plane of Enrico Mattai, Italian industry figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances. Historyorb.com.

July 1964 – 76 – Prosecutor general Villorio Occorsio said the there was a plot code named Piano Solo, to seize power in Italy. Many people who knew about Piano Solo died unnatural deaths. Found shot or were involved in suspicious car accidents. Occorsio was murdered in 1976. Nicola Gentile died in December 1964 of a heart attack in Sicily. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

23 July 1968 – El Al airliner from Rome to Tel Aviv was hijacked to Algiers. The hostages were held for five weeks then released in return for two Palestinians, one Syrian hijacker and 16 prisoners.

29 August 1969 – TWA flight 840 from Rome to Athens was hijacked to Damascus it was destroyed after the hostages were freed. Injuries unknown.

August 1972 – El Al Rome baggage car bomb.

16 August 1972 – El Al flight Rome to Tel Aviv bomb in luggage compartment. Two suspects were arrested in Rome then freed.

4 April 1973 – Attack on an El Al plane at Rome was foiled. Two people were arrested and deported to Lebanon.

27 April 1973 – A civilian clerk was murdered at an El Al desk at Rome airport by Palestinians.

17 June 1973 – A car bomb exploded near Rome El Al desk. Two Arabs were injured and freed without trial.

5 September 1973 – A planned missile attack at Rome airport was foiled. Five Palestinians were arrested. Two were released on bail with no show for trial.

17 December 1973 – Rome airport attack and hijacking. Five attackers hit a Pan Am 707 with grenades. They herded five Italian hostages into a Lufthansa airliner and killed an Italian customs agent, then forced the plane to fly to Beirut.

17 December 1973 – Attack and hijack at Rome airport. Five terrorists pulled weapons from their luggage in the terminal building, killing two people. Then they attacked a Pan Am 707 bound for Beirut and Tehran, destroying it with grenades and killing 29 people, including four senior Moroccan officials and 14 American employees of Aramco. Then they herded five Italian hostages into a Lufthansa airliner and killed an Italian customs agent as he tried to escape. Then they forced the pilot to fly to Beirut. No group claimed responsibility.

Late 1970s – Intel news. 28 April 2014. Ian Allen. Israeli spy Jacob Yakuba Cohen was for three years in Milan Italy.

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

6 May 1976 – Earthquake in northern Italy near the Austrian Yugoslav borders. More than 1,000 people were killed and 80,000 left homeless. (timelines internet).

1978 – The Italian red brigades kidnapped and murdered the former Italian PM Aldo Moro. Their financial manager was Giuseppe Alessandrini, a businessman. Nicola Gentile was a mafia KGB in Italy who had lived in the US. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

16 March 1978 – Kidnapping of Italian PM Aldo Moro. He was seized by the red brigade and assassinated 55 days later. Two people were killed.

20 March 1979 – In Rome the mafia killed Mino Pecorelli a magazine editor and  journalist (timelines internet).

20 March 1979 – Carmine mino Pecorelli a 50 year old journalist was assassinated in his office in the via Orazio in Rome. Mafia suspected. Unsolved crime. (The annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

23 November 1980 – 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes in southern Italy (AP 11/23/27 timelines internet).

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

Summer 1981 – Pope John Paul assassination attempt. One person was wounded.

24 February 1981 – A machine gun attack in Italy wounded five people.

13 May 1981 – An agent named Mehmet Ali Agca, a young Turk, who may have plotted to kill Walesa in a January 1981 visit to Rome. He did shoot and almost kill the Pope in St Peters square on 13 May 1981. Agca had ties to the Bulgarian intelligence. The Bulgarians needed Moscows approval. (Cold war ©2005 Gaddis).

13 May 1981 – Mehmet Ali Agca shot pope John Paul 4 times, the pope survived. Evidence that Agca had been working for the Bulgarian intel service on behalf of the KGB. (the annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1982 – Italian red brigade terrorists kidnapped US Army Brigadier General James Dozier. The Italians rescued him. (Americas wars ©2003 P Huchthausen).

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

22 June 1983 – Emanuela Orlandi daughter of Vatican bank executive disappeared boarding a bus to Vatican city Italy. (The annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1984 – Assassination in Rome of Leamon Hunt Un DG.

25 October 1984 – A diplomat from the UAE was assassinated in Rome.

1985 – Authorities arrested a group of kidnappers who were abducting children from gypsy families for sale abroad to Italians and Americans in Rome and Paris. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. ©2007).

1985-91 – A mafia drug war this time claimed the lives of about 600 people. Giovanni Tegano a senior mafia in Reggio Calabria was a key participant. (Econ 5/8/10/54, internet).

July 1985 – Max Rabb was the US ambassador to Italy. The capture of the Achille Lauro terrorists. (Inside the NSC ©1988 C Menges).

23 September 1985 – Italian journalist Giancarlo Siani (born 1959) was killed after he wrote investigative reports about the mafia in Naples daily ll Mattino. (Timelines internet)

7 October 1985 – Achille Lauro hijacking. Four Palestinian liberation front terrorists seized the Italian cruise liner in the eastern Mediterranean sea. They took more than 700 hostages. One US passenger was killed before the Egyptian government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages freedom. One person was killed and three others wounded. The CIA linked these terrorist acts to Libya.

27 December 1985 – Airports in Rome and Vienna were attacked. Five Americans were among those who died. The CIA linked these terrorist acts to Libya. (Americas wars ©2003 P Huchthausen)

27 December 1985 – Airport attacks in Rome and Vienna. Four gunmen belonging to the Abu Nidal organisation attacked the El Al and TWA ticket counters at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport with grenades and automatic rifles. Thirteen people were killed and 75 wounded before Italian police and Israeli security guards killed three of the gunmen and captured the fourth. Rome airport bomb.

27 December 1985 – Assailants open fire with automatic weapons and throw grenades at the check in counters of USD airliner TWA and Israeli carrier El Al at Fiumicino international airport in Rome killing 16 and injuring 80.

27 December 1985 – Two terrorist groups with automatic weapons and hand grenades attacked civilian airports in Rome and Vienna. 132 people were killed and wounded including 7 Americans. (Inside the NSC ©1988 C Menges).

1986 – James Edward Miller. The US and Italy 1940-1950 the politics of diplomacy and stabilization. Chapel Hill uni of north Carolina press.

January 1986 – Italy banned further arms sales to Libya. (Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).

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

18 March 1986 – Michele Sindona died in prison in Rome of cyanide poisoning. He was a financier for the pope. (The annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

2 April 1986 – Two US passengers aboard a TWA Boeing 727 from Rome to Athens were killed, by the explosion of a bomb placed under a seat. Nine others were injured.

8 April 1986 – An explosion aboard a TWA flight from Rome was caused by a terrorist bomb. Four Americans were killed and Libya was implicated. (Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).

14 April 1988 – Naples USO attack. The organisation of Jihad brigades exploded a car bomb outside a USO club in Naples Italy killing one US sailor.

Late 1989 – BNL officials met with US ambassador to Italy regarding the BNL scandal.

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

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

8 January 1993 – Sicily journalist Beppe Alfano (born 1945) was killed by the mafia (timelines internet).

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

1994 – A concise history of Italy. Christopher Duggan. Google books.

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

1995 – Italian genealogical records and ecclesiastical. Trafford R Cole google books Ancestry inc POBox 476 Salt Lake city Utah 841100476 USA.

1995 – Italian genealogical records and how to use them. Italian rcord keeping history and development. Trafford R Cole (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 – PM Giulio Andreotti went on trial for allegedly turning to the mafia to kill journalist Mino Pecorelli in 1979 (timelines internet).

1996 – The Sicilian mafia the business of private protection. Diego Gambetta.

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

26 September 1997 – In Sicily a court convicted 24 mafia for the 1992 bombing of anti-mafia prosecuter Salvatore Toto Riina (timelines internet)

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

1998-99 – Defendants in the 1999 trial in Cairo, against the Islamic Jihad Egyptian terror group, provided insights into the Arab Afghan network in Albania. Most of them were employed by Islamic charities in Tirana. Shawki Salama Mustafa the Egyptian that headed al-Qaeda’s Albanian cell ran a racket in Tirana forging identities, passports and birth certificates, which he leaned in 1994 in Sudan. A forging business. Ahmed Ibrahim al-Sayed al-Naggar the Jihad member who was tied to bin Laden in Albania. Smuggling arms and drugs into Europe. They established business ventures with the Italian mafia, which took responsibility for sale and distribution of drugs. Albania became a transhipment point in the drug trade from Afghanistan to Europe.

11 February 1998 – President Yeltsin visited Italy for 3 days $5 billion in trade and investment contracts (timeline internet).

2001 – A history of Italian law. Carlo Calisse. 1921 fascist government 13 Jan 1925 fascist. Google books.

2004 – Cosa Nostra. A history of the Sicilian mafia. John Dickie. Google books.

2007 – Crime and justice in medieval Italy. Trevor Dean. Prosecuted crime and sex crimes. Google books.

2013 – History of the Mafia. Salvatore Lupo. Google books.

14 July 2013 – lords of international drug trafficking. Economic times cocaine broker Roberto Pannunzi arrested in Colombia shipped to Rome Italy.

20 Sept 2013 – Gazetta del Sud 3.5 mn Euros seized from mafia linked Palermo. Italian police wind farm mogul Vito Nicastri money laundered.

 7 Oct 2013 – Mafia targets war veteran journalist Roberto Saviano. Naples Mafia. The local Italy news in English.

29 June 2014 – Sex abuse pope problems both simple and complex. Boston Globe. Victims of clerical sex abuse. Paying for sex with underage boys Papal ambassador to the Dominican republic recalled, a Paedophile.

5 July 2014 – Italians lead in adopting Russian kids. The Moscow Times. About half of all Russian orphans adopted by foreigners in 2013 were taken by Italian families according to a report by Russia supreme.

10 July 2014 – Vatican cleans up scandal hit bank. Stuff.co.nz. Andrew Frye. The Vatican bank. The IOR bank was set up in 1942, the Banco Ambrosiano in 1980s. The Institute for Religious Works or IOR.

14 July 2014 – Now the end begins. Vatican, pope Francis says there are at least 8,000 paedophile priests around the globe. BBC interview. Catholic church.

20 July 2014 – Death of adopted Russian boy sparks outrage. The Moscow Times. Delphia d’Amora. Children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov. Killing of a five year old Russian boy strangled.