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Everything about Italy on 360n60: 1 news, 1 history, 4 dates in history, 1 people. Each told in 60 words.
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On this day · 4
- On this day · 21 August 1911
The Mona Lisa is stolen
On 21 August 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian who had worked at the museum. It was missing for more than two years before being recovered in Florence in 1913. The theft made it the world's most famous painting.
- On this day · 24 June 1859
A battle inspires the founding of the Red Cross
On 24 June 1859, the Swiss businessman Henri Dunant saw thousands of wounded soldiers left without care after the Battle of Solferino in northern Italy. His book about it led to the founding of the Red Cross in 1863 and the first Geneva Convention. Dunant shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
- On this day · 12 May 1820
Florence Nightingale is born
On 12 May 1820, Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy. She cut deaths in military hospitals by insisting on cleanliness, and founded the first professional school of nursing in London in 1860. Her birthday is celebrated as International Nurses Day.
- On this day · 1 January 1801
Ceres, the first asteroid, is discovered
On 1 January 1801, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi spotted a faint moving point of light from his observatory in Palermo. It was Ceres, the first object found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Today Ceres is classed as a dwarf planet, and NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited it from 2015.