Italian journalist and author

Marco Travaglio

Marco Travaglio is an Italian journalist, writer, and pundit. Since 2015, he has been the editor-in-chief of the independent daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. Travaglio began his journalistic career in the late 1980s under Indro Montanelli at Il Giornale and La Voce, then in the 2000s worked at La Repubblica and L'Unità, before becoming one of the founders of Il Fatto Quotidiano in 2009. He is also the author of many books and a columnist for several other national newspapers and magazines, his main interests have been judicial reporting and current affairs and politics, dealing with issues ranging from the fight against the Italian Mafia to corruption.

Born

1964

October 13

Died

Living

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1960s

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1964 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

54 Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adopted son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.
409 Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1269 The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1307 Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.

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The world in 1964

When Marco arrived

april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Conrad Richter 1890–1968 American journalist and novelist (died 1968) Jerry Rice 1962– American football player Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Justin Peroff 1977– Canadian drummer and actor Kelly Preston 1962–2020 American actress and model (born 1962) Laraine Day 1920–2007 American actress (born 1920) Margaret Thatcher 1925–2013 English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1925) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1948–1997 Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (born 1948) Pharoah Sanders 1940–2022 American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2022)

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Abhisit Vejjajiva 1964– English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand Andrew Bartlett 1964– Australian social worker and politician Andy Serkis 1964– English actor and director Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Arlie Petters 1964– Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic Azmin Ali 1964– Malaysian mathematician and politician Brian Adams 1964–2007 American wrestler (died 2007) Bridget Fonda 1964– American actress Calista Flockhart 1964– American actress

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