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Tuesday, 8 November 1960 John kennedy was in Boston. It was election day, and he was the Democratic Party candidate. His Challenger was Republican Richard Nixon. Kennedy stood at 7.30 You poked bracing and swallowed two tablets of amphetamines. He was suffering from terrible backaches time due to two serious injuries, a reported by Guy in a football game and the second in an act of war in World War II. His wife Jacqueline, married in 1953, was eight months pregnant with their second child and joined him in Boston to go to vote. After voting they returned at the headquarters of the kennedy family in Hyannis Port, precisely at the’ Home of Robert Kennedy. The election results were expected during the night of l’ 8 and the 9. In the Kennedy family and its collaborators meandered much agitation. John Kennedy flaunted a certain detachment and showed silent. About three o'clock in the morning it was clear that the poll focused on his behalf with 261 electoral votes, it lacked 8 for the win. In Los Angeles he resided on Nixon's headquarters, at l’ Hotel Ambassador. The Republican candidate appeared on television very disappointed and his wife Pat in tears. Pierre Saliger, Kennedy's spokesman, He invited John to present themselves to the media but received a solemn denial. John was eating a sandwich, It was too late for him and went to sleep. His brother Robert instead stayed up all night to monitor the various responses of those elections. Kennedy won with 303 electoral votes against 210 Nixon's narrow victory in the American system in terms of popular votes, the margin was tighter in history until the elections of 2000. In 1960 that gap was 112.881 ratings. Kennedy woke up at 9 of 9 November 1960, had breakfast with his wife and daughter Caroline and went for a walk on the beach. On his return, the news came that he was elected President.

Hector Parker

From the ruins of defeat of Caporetto Italian rescue is born: We win in Vittorio Veneto, We release Trento e Trieste, the Austria-Hungary signing the Armistice, the 4 November, the war is over and a few days later we force the Germany to sign the Armistice. The young Italian State, poorly organized and even less equipped, wins the first world war. Factors of this success can be found not in the preparation of the war, as usual underestimated by the General command; certainly not in the power of one was born from just fifty years, but torn apart by internal conflicts: had become the Italy, but not even the Italians; certainly not in the country's domestic economic and political resources: the Italy having always been at the mercy of foreign conquerors was sacked that conduct toward progress. It remains then to consider the human factor, so present in the verses of songs that evoke the World War I. Words like sacrifice, humility, Piave, victory, Italy were on the lips of all the soldiers who were preparing to go to the front, even those ragazzi del ' 99 (1899 means), After the defeat of Caporetto, just fifteen to sixteen years were enrolled in the ranks of the army. Were those ideas and those feelings were born in the nineteenth century by those revolutionary movements, that brought Italy to turn himself in Was, to push those same Italians to defend that same young home. The 4 November 1921, picked up the body of a soldier who died during the first world war and did not know the General information, It was erected in Rome the monument to the unknown soldier and was laid inside the coffin of this soldier. The intent was to keep alive the memory of those who gave their lives to defend the homeland, But today we remember more.

Roberto

The war against Austria-Hungary which, under the guidance of s. M. The king, Duce supremo, the Italian Army, bottom number and means, started on 24 May 1915 and with unshakable faith and dogged unbroken led value and without rest for 41 months is won. The gigantic battle on 24 last October, and to which took part in cinquantuna Italian divisions, three British, two French, a Czechoslovakian and an American Regiment, against seventy-three Austro-Hungarian divisions, is over. The lightning-fast and advanced audacious XXIX Corps out of Trento, barring the way of retreat to the enemy armies of Trentino, overwhelmed by the troops of the 7TH army in the West and to the East by those of the, Vi and IV, determined yesterday total opposing the putrefaction brow. By the irresistible ELAN of the Brenta Tower XII, the 8th, the tenth army and cavalry divisions, increasingly pushes back the fleeing enemy. In the plain, S.A. R. the Duca D'Aosta are advancing so fast at the head of his unswerving armed III, longingly of returning on the positions which it already successfully conquered, that never had lost. The Austro-Hungarian army is annihilated: it suffered severe losses in the fierce resistance of the early days and has lost an awful lot of material quantity in the pursuit of all sorts and almost in full its warehouses and deposits. He left so far in our hands about three hundred thousand prisoners with entire staffs and not less than five thousand cannons. The remains of what was one of the most powerful armies in the world back in disorder and hopeless valleys, they had descended with prideful safety.

Armando Diaz – Supreme Command, 4 November 1918, hours 12

Arrigo Sacchi has described football as the most important thing of less important things. This sport can stimulate blood and rationally inexplicable emotions but because those are sincere, tangible nell’ the human soul. There is a team that is broader and deeper emotional catalogue unequaled in the world and in the history of the game, the Turin. It is related one of the most delicate and poignant stories that cross boundaries grenade to settle in’ soul of all, or in no-time. The protagonist is a boy named Gigi Meroni, born on 24 February 1943 and died in 24 years on 15 October 1967. Did the designer of neckties and dabbled with paint, It was also much appreciated. But its popularity was mainly due to calcium. He played as a right winger, the number 7. He grew up in the youth system of Como, It was bought by Genoa where young established himself as the future in seria A. In 1964 It was bought for exorbitant by Torino coached by Nereo Rocco. Were spent 300 millions of lire. Wasted no time in proving his worth on the field. On his way to stay on the pitch was l’ essence of the pure game, fantasy, dribbling, shooting painted. He wore long hair for l’ epoch and that contrasted with the conformity of the coaches as Locksmiths. Loved to paint on canvas and design your own quirky dresses. His sense of nonconformity and rebellion led him to show up even with a chicken on a leash. He had a way of making that conquered, everyone loved him. Fell back to a beautiful young woman of Polish origin, Christian Uderstadt, who worked as harveycarter in Genoa. Unfortunately she was already betrothed to an Assistant Director of Rome. Don't lost sight and their relationship such scandal. L’ charges of concubinage accompanied them until her marriage was annulled. He lived first in an attic, then in an apartment of Corso Umberto I in the Centre of Turin. Beautiful and important goal marked like that all’ invincible Mazzola and Facchetti's Inter which still show on television. Also entered in the national. Sundays 15 October 1967 He played his last game against Sampdoria, won the grenade to 4-2. That day the striker Nestor Combin number 9 Torino had three goals. At the end of the race next Sunday in Gigi praise told him that during the derby would do three more goals. In the evening, in the rain, Nell’ Cross Corso Re Umberto with friend Fabrizio Poletti was run over by a car driven by Attilio Romero, among other supporter of Turin. Gigi died shortly after in hospital. He was dead the sportsman who had represented the years 60 with its sporting talent, art with his life only and upstream. In the history of Turin made of dramas and mysterious links things to mention the tragic homonym tying Gigi Meroni with Luigi Meroni the Commander of’ plane of the Grande Torino died at Superga on 4 may 1949. The boy in the 1967 invested Meroni, Attilio Romero, in 2000 He became President of the Turin. The following Sunday was played in an unreal atmosphere the derby between Juventus and Torino hot favourite. That Sunday the Turin won 4-0 with three goals just Nestor Combin, and the fourth goal marked the young Alberto Carelli that that Sunday wore the Jersey number 7. A final curiosity is a strange statistic, When the Turin plays 15 October or in a very narrow range at that time win or draw, never misses. The butterfly grenade, nickname dedicated to Gigi Meroni, fly. Just flies higher and higher into a different dimension purest allowed who was transfigured by the legend.

Hector Parker

 

The periodic repetition of the process of beatification of Pope Pius XII reopens the debate on the figure and the role of the Roman Pontiff during World War II. Eugenio Pacelli was at the head of the Church with the name of Pius XII from 1939 at 1958. The historical context within which entered the action by the Pope is particularly complex: the late 1930s saw a difficult situation by agreement between the Italian State and the Papal State, situation resulting from the conquest of Rome by late 19th century and its conversion into capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Concurrently, During this period, It is stated in Italy fascism, new phenomenon and that it imposes on Italian and international politics, followed by at the beginning of the 1940s, the outbreak of World War II, the difficult time of the Armistice, employment of German troops, the bombing of Rome, the liberation of Italy; the 1950s post war society evolution begins with the assumptions of a new economic boom and, at the international level, the cold war between the Usa and Russia. During all these events solidified the role of Pius XII: Historically it is difficult to judge rationally, objective and unanimous on his activities as Pope. To date, you have two types of evaluation: a negative one, According to which Pius XII worked in silence, not condemning the action Nazi genocide against Jews in Europe, not protecting the Roman Jews, not preventing the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine; According to the other assessment, that defensive, It was only thanks to his work that Pius XII Vatican buildings could accommodate hundreds of Jews, thus saving their lives. The image etched in the collective historical memory italiana, tying Pacelli to conflict, is its presence in the San Lorenzo district, After the American bombing of July 1943: the Pope without an escort, on a simple car, accompanied only by his Secretary Malik, future Paul VI, he rushed into the place hardest hit by American bombing, praying through the crowd that image I had to Defensor urbis. From a historical point of view, what is less known is that, Thanks to the quiet of the Roman Pontiff, Pacelli extended the extraterritoriality even outside of the Vatican State, in the city of Rome, allowing Roman ecclesiastical buildings not to be searched by German troops and to be able to welcome and save Jews, military, political partisans and sought. Currently venerable for Pius XII has reached the status of the Catholic Church and the beatification process can be started only in the presence of a miracle attributed to his intercession. Only a miracle can, then, Re-evaluate the action of a Pontiff lived in an age of radical changes too strong even for the same Roman Church. This is the only way to explain why his successor, John XXIII, He felt the need to convene a Vatican Council to discuss changes in the world, of those that were taking place in society and to try to chart a new course for the Church. A summary of the pontificate of Pius XII to his radio Declaration pronounced on the occasion of the birth of 1943:

“We did and we will always do what is in our material and spiritual forces to relieve the sad consequences of war, for prisoners, for the wounded, for the missing, for stray dogs, for those in need, for all the suffering and the Tan of every language and nation " Pius PP. XII

Roberto