1980 in Italy

Events during the year 1980 in Italy

Incumbents

• President – Sandro Pertini
• Prime Minister – Francesco Cossiga (until 18 October); Arnaldo Forlani (after 18 October)

Events

• 27 June – Ustica Massacre: Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea mid-flight from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 people on board.
• 2 August – A terrorist attack at Bologna Centrale railway station kills 85 people and injures over 200.
• 23 November – A magnitude-6.9 earthquake kills 2,483, injures 7,700, and displaces hundreds of thousands.

Birth

• 19 January – Anna Incerti, runner
• 17 June – Elisa Rigaudo, race walker
• 23 June – Francesca Schiavone, tennis player
• 26 July – Giulia Pignolo, sailor
• 7 October – Clarissa Claretti, hammer thrower

Deaths

• 1 January
• Aldo Aimi, footballer (b. 1906)
• Pietro Nenni, politician (b. 1891)
• 6 January – Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935)
• 9 January – Gaetano Belloni, road racing cyclist (b. 1892)
• 22 January – Teresa Noce, labour leader, activist and journalist (b. 1900)
• 27 January – Peppino De Filippo, actor (b. 1903)
• 28 January – Franco Evangelisti, composer (b. 1926)
• 7 February – Secondo Campini, jet pioneer (b. 1904)
• 21 February – Aldo Andreotti, mathematician (b. 1924)
• 26 February – Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 14 August – Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright (b. 1911)

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