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| 1919 June 24 |
| | | A delegation from France, defeated and partly occupied by Germany, signs in Rome an armistice with Mussolini's Italy | |
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| 1944 June 4 |
| | | A multinational Allied force moves fast from Monte Cassino to capture Rome | |
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| 1953 |
| | | William Wyler directs Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a beguiling comedy about a princess's romance in Rome | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Italian film director Federico Fellini makes La Dolce Vita, an episodic study of life along the Via Veneto in Rome | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras preside over simultaneous ceremonies, in Rome and Istanbul, revoking the mutual excommunications of 1054 | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Pope Paul VI visits the Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, shocking some Catholics that this visit has preceded one by the Patriarch to Rome | |
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| 1981 |
| | | A Turkish assailant in St Peter's Square in Rome shoots and seriously wounds John Paul II | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Three tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras) sing at a concert in Rome to celebrate the World Cup | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Russell Crowe stars in Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, a revenge drama set in second-century Rome | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Patriarch Christodoulos attends the funeral in Rome of Pope John Paul II | |
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