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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        
1960
 
    
Italian film director Federico Fellini makes La Dolce Vita, an episodic study of life along the Via Veneto in Rome       
1965
 
    
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras preside over simultaneous ceremonies, in Rome and Istanbul, revoking the mutual excommunications of 1054       
1967
 
    
Pope Paul VI visits the Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, shocking some Catholics that this visit has preceded one by the Patriarch to Rome       
1981
 
   
A Turkish assailant in St Peter's Square in Rome shoots and seriously wounds John Paul II      
1990
 
     
Three tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras) sing at a concert in Rome to celebrate the World Cup        
2000
 
 
Russell Crowe stars in Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, a revenge drama set in second-century Rome    
Poster for Gladiator, 2000


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2005
 
    
Patriarch Christodoulos attends the funeral in Rome of Pope John Paul II