31/10/15  |  History
31 OCTOBER 1909: First air raid without airship stopover
Sunday - Lieutenant Guido Scelsi, having tested it on the Tuscan archipelago in flight, pilots the N.XNXX bis in the first Italian non-stop raid on the ...
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30/10/15  |  History
30 OCTOBER 1918: The Marina advances on the Lower Piave
The Italian offensive breaks through the Austrian front. The sailor regiment breaks into the handle of Revedoli; other sailors, framed in units of the Army, across the bridge ...
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30/10/15  |  History
30 OCTOBER 1914: Other Italian preventive actions, the occupation of Saseno
The Italian landing companies, on board the ships of the Special Division commanded by Admiral Patris, take land and occupy the island of Saseno. In the Bay of S. Nicolò ...
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29/10/15  |  History
Dead or alive. 20.000 crowns for the pilot lieutenant Eugenio Casagrande
October 1918. Bad weather and rough seas. For two nights, on the 3rd and 8th of that month, an unsuccessful attempt was made, in front of Poreč, in Istria, to recover a ...
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29/10/15  |  History
29 October 1888: Signed agreement for the transit of the Suez Canal
Monday - It is signed in Constantinople by Italy, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain and Turkey the homonymous Convention that regulates ...
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28/10/15  |  History
28 OCTOBER 1911: First air-sea action
Saturday - In the Tripolitania an air-sea action takes place - the first in the world - with the participation of the 1a Flottiglia airplanes of Tripoli and the battleship ...
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27/10/15  |  History
27 OCTOBER 1887: First contingent of the Special Body of Africa
Thursday - Transport from Naples to the Red Sea, transport America (commander, captain of the vessel Giuseppe Palumbo) with the Lieutenant General Alessandro Asinari of San ...
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26/10/15  |  History
October 1940 - The rescue of the Pentcho shipwrecks
Some recent articles in the prestigious US newspaper New York Times have explained to the public across the Atlantic (and beyond) some of the excellent results ...
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26/10/15  |  History
26 October 1954: Trieste returns to Italy
Tuesday - In the morning the first units of the Italian Navy (in the ...
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26/10/15  |  History
26 October 1866: First treaty of friendship, trade and navigation with China
Friday - In Beijing the frigate captain Vittorio Arminjon, commander of the Magenta corvette, equipped with ...
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25/10/15  |  History
25 October 1915: war bulletin
"In Venice, yesterday, shortly after 10 in the evening, two attacks took place, at short intervals, by airplanes ...
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24/10/15  |  History
24 OCTOBER 1915: The Marina on the Lower Isonzo
Baptism of fire by the Basso Isonzo artillery group, commanded by the frigate captain Antonio Foschini. L'...
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24/10/15  |  History
24 OCTOBER 1910: devastation in Campania
Monday - A violent storm drops in the morning on the Gulf of Naples, causing collapses and devastation with more than ...
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23/10/15  |  History
2 August 1917: The first fitting on a moving aircraft carrier
Despite being the month of August, it blows decisively and little more than lukewarm, the wind that moves the crests of that sea that ...
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23/10/15  |  History
23 October 1916: Air attack on Istria
Monday - Four seaplanes of the Regia Marina perform an offensive action on the Istrian coast, from Punta Salvore to ...
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22/10/15  |  History
22 OCTOBER 1915: Air combat on the sky of Trieste
Seaplanes of the Regia Marina attack the Julian city, from which Austro-Hungarian aircraft take off in contrast to ...
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22/10/15  |  History
22 OCTOBER 1914: Hunting for mines with destroyers
Thursday - The Grenadier and Corazziere destroyers of the 4a Squadriglia, located in Ancona, are used as ...
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21/10/15  |  History
21 October 1866: Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy
Sunday - Plebiscito (by universal male suffrage) in the Veneto region on the passage of the region to the Kingdom of Italy ...
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20/10/15  |  History
20 OCTOBER 1916: The F 1 submarine enters service
Friday - The F 1 submarine enters service at the command of corvette captain Guido Calieri di Sala ...
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19/10/15  |  History
19 October 1896: Navy unit for transport and escort of Princess Jelena
Monday - The Royal Savoy yacht with the escort of the torpedo rams Stromboli and Bausan leaves Brindisi for ...
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Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little to burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories. It also touched...

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