Italian theorist and politician (died 1986)

Altiero Spinelli

Altiero Spinelli was an Italian politician, political theorist and European federalist, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union. A communist and militant anti-fascist in his youth, Spinelli spent 10 years imprisoned by the Italian fascist regime. Having grown disillusioned with Stalinism, he broke with the Communist Party of Italy in 1937. Interned in Ventotene during World War II, he, along with fellow democratic socialists, drafted the manifesto For a Free and United Europe in 1941, considered a precursor of the European integration process.

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1907

August 31

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april 17 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
august 1 The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
august 15 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
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