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28th October 1922: Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts approach the Italian capital in the March on Rome

28th October 2023
Tagged as: Fascism, Italy, March on Rome, Mussolini, Rome, Victor Emmanuel III

Mussolini and up to 30,000 supporters from across the country, the Blackshirts, embarked on a calculated and audacious march to Rome to seize power.

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2nd June 1946: Italians vote in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and turn their country into a republic

2nd June 2022
Tagged as: Government, Italy, Monarchy, Mussolini, Politics, Referendum, Republic, Republicanism, Second World War, Umberto II, Victor Emmanuel III

More than 89% of eligible Italian citizens voted in the referendum, with 54.3% voting in favour of turning the country into a republic.

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31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

31st October 2021
Tagged as: Blackshirts, Fascism, Italy, March on Rome, Mussolini, Revolution, Rome, Victor Emmanuel III

Mussolini, who was determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire following the ‘mutilated victory’ of the First World War, had formed the precursor to the Fascist Party in 1919.

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28th October 1922: Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts approach the Italian capital in the March on Rome

2nd June 1946: Italians vote in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and turn their country into a republic

31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

29th November 1929: Richard E. Byrd completes the first flight over the South Pole

28th November 1925: The Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio show in the USA, broadcast for the first time

27th November 1978: San Francisco politicians George Moscone and Harvey Milk shot dead by former Supervisor Dan White

26th November 1789: The first formal National Day of Thanksgiving in the United States

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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