1987 in Italy

Events from the year 1987 in Italy

Incumbents President: Francesco CossigaBiografia – Francesco Cossiga Prime Minister: Bettino CraxiI tre più potenti? Agnelli, Craxi e De Mita until 18 April, then Amintore Fanfani until 29 July, then Giovanni Goria

Events 4 to 7 February – 37th Sanremo Music Festival. Song Si può dare di più becomes number-one hit. 18 April – Sixth Fanfani government 9 May – Eurovision Song Contest 1987 held in Brussels: 3rd place for Umberto Tozzi and Raf with "Gente di mare" 17 May – 1986–87 Serie A ends: SSC Napoli, under the leadership of captain Diego Maradona, wins 1st title. (→ 1986–87 SSC Napoli season) 7 and 13 June – 1987 Coppa Italia final: Napoli wins 4 - 0 on aggregate over Atalanta BC. 14 and 15 June – 1987 Italian general election: Christian Democracy under Ciriaco De Mita widens the distance from Communists under Alessandro Natta 2 July – Legislature X of Italy founded (until 1992) 29 July – Goria government (until April 1988) 8 November – 1987 Italian referendums. 13 December – Gianfranco Fini is Secretary of Italian Social Movement. 16 December – Maxiprocesso ends in Palermo: 338 were convicted out of 475 defendants; 19 life sentences were handed and 2,665 years of prison sentences.

Births

Deaths 7 February – Claudio Villa, singer and actor, four-time Sanremo winner (b. 1926) 3 March – Balilla Lombardi, footballer (b. 1916) 11 April – Primo Levi, Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer (b. 1919)

See also 1987 in Italian television List of Italian films of 1987

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