Events from the year 1984 in Italy
Incumbents President: Sandro Pertini Prime Minister: Bettino Craxi (First Craxi government)
Events February 2 to 4 February – Sanremo Music Festival 1984: Al Bano and Romina Power with "Ci sarà" win Big Artists section; Eros Ramazzotti wins newly established Newcomers section with the song "Terra promessa". 8 to 19 February – Italy at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia: 74 competitors in 9 sports, 2 Gold medals (Paul Hildgartner and Paoletta Magoni). 18 February – Revision of Lateran Treaty (1929) signed: Catholic religion is not the sole religion of the Italian State.
May 5 May – Eurovision Song Contest 1984 in Luxembourg: 5th place for Alice and Franco Battiato for "I treni di Tozeur". 13 May – 1983–84 Serie A ends: Juventus FC wins 21st title.
June 7 June – Enrico Berlinguer, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party, suffered a brain haemorrhage while giving a speech at a public meeting in Padua; he dies four days later. 13 June – Berlinguer funeral in Rome, around one million people attended. (List of largest funerals) 17 June – 1984 European Parliament election in Italy: only time that Communists placed first in a national election. 24 June – Antonio Bisaglia, Christian Democrat Senator, drowns off the coast of Santa Margherita Ligure. Alessandro Natta is new General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (until 1988). 28 June – Tommaso Buscetta extradited from Brasil. (→ Maxi Trial from 1986)
July 5 July – Diego Maradona welcomed in Naples. He plays for SSC Napoli until 1991. 28 July to 12 August – Italy at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA: 268 competitors in 23 sports; 14 Gold, 6 Silver, 12 Bronze medals.
August 26 August – Eight people were killed in Torre Annunziata in a massacre linked to the Camorra. 27 August – Fininvest buys Rete 4 television channel. 9 September – 1984 Italian Grand Prix held at Monza Circuit, won by Austrian Niki Lauda.
October 16 October – Three judges, in Turin, Pescara and Rome, order private (Silvio Berlusconi's) TV networks to be closed. 20 October – Craxi government passes an emergency decree legalising the nationwide transmissions made by Berlusconi's television stations
November November – Aftermath of Golpe Borghese (1970): all 46 defendants were acquitted on the appeal trial because the "fact did not happen" and only existed in "a private meeting between four or five sixty-years-olds". Il golpe Borghese. Storia di un'inchiesta , La storia siamo noi, Rai Educational (accessed 24 February 2011) E la Cia disse: sì al golpe Borghese ma soltanto con Andreotti premier, La Repubblica, 5 December 2005
December 23 December – Train 904 bombing: 16 killed, 266 wounded by the Sicilian Mafia.
Births 30 July – Barbara Berlusconi, business executive
Deaths 11 June – Enrico Berlinguer, 62, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party 24 June – Antonio Bisaglia, 55, Christian Democrat Senator
See also 1984 in Italian television List of Italian films of 1984
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