1923 in Italy
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Events from the year 1923 in Italy.
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Incumbents
- King â Victor Emmanuel III
- Prime Minister â Benito Mussolini
Events
- 28 March â Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Italy, is founded.[1]
- 18 June â Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless
- 18 November â The Acerbo Law goes into effect giving Mussolini's fascist party a majority of deputies. The law was used only in the 1924 general election, which was the last competitive election held in Italy until 1946.
- 1 December â In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo bursts, killing at least 356 people[2]
Births
- 1 January â Valentina Cortese, actress
- 10 February â Cesare Siepi, opera singer
- 12 February â Franco Zeffirelli, filmmaker
- 7 June â Giorgio Belladonna, bridge player
- 15 October â Italo Calvino, writer and journalist
Deaths
- 19 August â Vilfredo Pareto, polymath (b. 1848)