From the deaths of Giuseppe Fava and Galileo Galilei to the debut of the euro with Emanuele Dessì
The director of L'Unione Sarda comments on the recurrences of the week from 3 to 9 January in "The day and the story"
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The director of L'Unione Sarda Emanuele Dessì is back on Rai Storia.
From the deaths of Giuseppe Fava and Galileo Galilei to the opening of the first "Children's House" by Maria Montessori, from the beginning of Rai broadcasts to the debut of the euro, from the birth of the Italian flag to the construction of the Aswan dam, he will comment on facts and characters of the week from 3 to 9 January as a columnist on "Il Giorno e la Storia", the Rai Cultura program signed by Giovanni Paolo Fontana, broadcast every day at 00.10 and in reruns at 8.30, 11.30, 14.00 and 20.10 on Rai History.
The week opens on Monday 3 January, the day on which, in 1954, after two years of experimental broadcasts, the images of the first Rai Tg arrive. When Rai starts broadcasting, the subscribers are only 88 thousand, in the space of four years there will be more than a million.
Tuesday 4 January marks the anniversary of the euro's debut, in 1999, for all non-physical forms of payment. Eleven European nations, including Italy, have adopted it on the basis of the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 and the euro will officially enter into circulation from January 1, 2002.
Wednesday 5 January the memory of Dessì goes to Giuseppe Fava, writer and journalist killed in 1984 by the mafia with 5 bullets to the back of the head. A year earlier, with the investigation "The four horsemen of the mafia apocalypse", he had denounced the links between important Catania entrepreneurs and the Nitto Santapaola clan.
Thursday 6 January in the foreground the inauguration of the first "Children's House" opened in 1907 in Rome by Maria Montessori for children aged 3 to 6. It is here that the psychiatrist and educator creates a structure built in such a way that the little ones feel completely at ease, that they interact spontaneously with the environment and learn without oppressive constraints.
On Friday 7 January the Tricolor was the protagonist, born in 1797 in Reggio Emilia, as the flag of the Cispadana Republic. The Catholic priest Giuseppe Compagnoni proposes that the banner, made up of green, white and red colors, be raised in all places subject to the sovereignty of the Cispadan republic.
Saturday 8 January we return to 1642: Galileo Galilei dies. A supporter of the Copernican theory of earth motion, he was condemned by the Inquisition and forced to abjure. The Church only rehabilitates it in 1992.
The week of the director of L'Unione Sarda closes on Saturday 9 January, recalling the beginning of the works for the construction of one of the most impressive works in the world: the Aswan dam, on the Nile, in 1960.
(Unioneonline)