Sandro Pertini
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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

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 108 years
  1. 25 Sept 1896BornBorn in San Giovanni
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1948 – 1953RoleMember of the Senate of the Italian Republic
  4. 1953 – 1958RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  5. 1955AwardGold Medal of Military Valour
  6. 1958 – 1963RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  7. 1963 – 1968RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  8. 1968 – 1972RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  9. 1968 – 1976RolePresident of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
  10. 1972 – 1976RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  11. 1976 – 1978RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  12. 1978 – 1985RolePresident of Italy
  13. 1980AwardCollar of the Order of Charles III
  14. 1980AwardHonorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
  15. 1985 – 1990RoleItalian senator for life
  16. 1985AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
  17. 1986AwardFour Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal
  18. 1988AwardOtto Hahn Peace Medal
  19. 24 Feb 1990DiedDied in Rome

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1896 – 1990).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1939 – 1945World War II
  19. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  20. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  21. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  22. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  23. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  24. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  25. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  26. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  28. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  29. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  31. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  32. 1956Suez Crisis
  33. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  35. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  37. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  39. 1968Prague Spring
  40. 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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