
Person
Sandro Pertini
1896 – 1990 · aged 94
Italian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
- Born
- 25 Sept 1896 · San Giovanni
- Died
- 24 Feb 1990 · Rome
Part ofKingdom of Italy1785 – 1946
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
Showing 108 years
- 25 Sept 1896BornBorn in San Giovanni
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 1948 – 1953RoleMember of the Senate of the Italian Republic
- 1953 – 1958RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
- 1955AwardGold Medal of Military Valour
- 1958 – 1963RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
- 1963 – 1968RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
- 1968 – 1972RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
- 1968 – 1976RolePresident of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
- 1972 – 1976RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
- 1976 – 1978RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
- 1978 – 1985RolePresident of Italy
- 1980AwardCollar of the Order of Charles III
- 1980AwardHonorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- 1985 – 1990RoleItalian senator for life
- 1985AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
- 1986AwardFour Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal
- 1988AwardOtto Hahn Peace Medal
- 24 Feb 1990DiedDied in Rome
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1896 – 1990).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
Biography
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini (25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian journalist, socialist politician, partisan and statesman who served as the
president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.
Text from the Wikipedia article Sandro Pertini, CC BY-SA 4.0
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