2010 in Italy
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Events of 2010 in Italy.
Incumbents
Events
January
- January 8: Riots break out amongst immigrants and local inhabitants in the town of Rosarno in southern Italy in a protest against an attack on African workers by white youths.[3][4]
- January 13: Pope Benedict XVI meets and forgives the woman who attacked him at Christmas Eve Mass in 2009.[5][6]
- January 17: Pope Benedict XVI makes a controversial visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome.[7]
- January 30: Judges across Italy stage a walk out over Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's proposed judicial reforms.[8][9]
February
- February 9: The Italian Embassy in Iran is attacked by protesters unhappy with Italy's decision to scale back economic dealings and push for tighter sanctions and protests are also held outside French and Dutch embassies. (The Jerusalem Post)
- February 14: Nine Irish Roman Catholic bishops and Cardinal Seán Brady arrive in Rome to discuss the Murphy Report and Ryan Report into the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland with Pope Benedict XVI, the first such meetings there in eight years. (RTÉ) (Reuters) (Gulf Times) (The Irish Times)
- February 16–20: Sanremo Music Festival 2010, the 60th annual edition held in Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia,
- February 26: The cruise ship MS Costa Europa crashes into a dock in the Egyptian port of Sharm al-Sheikh, killing three people. (BBC) (CNN)
- 12 to 28 February: Italy at the 2010 Winter Olympics: 114 competitors in 13 sports; 1 Gold medal, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze.
- February 23: unknown persons pour millions of liters of hydrocarbons into the Lambro river causing an environmental disaster that involved the valley of the river itself and the Po, in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna.
April
- April: The AppsBuilder project is initiated by Daniele Pelleri and Luigi Giglio in Milan.[10]
May
- May 1: Pope Benedict XVI will appoint an envoy and a commission to reform Legion of Christ (LC), whose Mexican founder, Marcial Maciel, abused children before being dismissed in 2006.
August
September
- September 12: Fernando Alonso wins the Italian Grand Prix. This would be Ferrari's last win at Monza until 2019.
Sports
Deaths
- February 8 – Antonio Giolitti, 94, politician
- February 20 – Mario Acerbi, 96, footballer
- April 15 – Raimondo Vianello, 87, television presenter
- May 5 - Giulietta Simionato, 99, operatic mezzo-soprano
- May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, poet and writer
- May 25 – Silvius Magnago, 96, politician
- July 8 – Lelio Luttazzi, 87, composer and television presenter
- August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 82, politician and former President
- September 21 – Sandra Mondaini, 79, actress
- November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, 91, film producer
- November 29 – Mario Monicelli, 95, actor, screenwriter and director
- November 30 – Berardino Libonati, 76, academic, businessman, jurist and lawyer[12]
- December 18 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, economist and former minister
- December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, 83, footballer and football coach