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A delegation from France, defeated and partly occupied by Germany, signs in Rome an armistice with Mussolini's Italy
Composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins work together on the ballet Fancy Free
Fancy Free becomes On the Town, a Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, directed by Jerome Robbins
A multinational Allied force moves fast from Monte Cassino to capture Rome
William Wyler directs Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a beguiling comedy about a princess's romance in Rome
Jerome Robbins creates the ballet The Concert, to music by Chopin
Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim create the Broadway musical West Side Story
John Cranko's version of Romeo and Juliet, to Prokofiev's score, is premiered by La Scala Ballet in Venice
Italian film director Federico Fellini makes La Dolce Vita, an episodic study of life along the Via Veneto in Rome
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras preside over simultaneous ceremonies, in Rome and Istanbul, revoking the mutual excommunications of 1054
Pope Paul VI visits the Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, shocking some Catholics that this visit has preceded one by the Patriarch to Rome
Archbishop Oscar Romero, an exponent of liberation theology, is killed as he celebrates Mass in San Salvador
A Turkish assailant in St Peter's Square in Rome shoots and seriously wounds John Paul II
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is described for the first time in a US medical journal
Three tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras) sing at a concert in Rome to celebrate the World Cup
Russell Crowe stars in Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, a revenge drama set in second-century Rome
A deadly new form of pneumonia, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is first reported in Hanoi and soon spreads globally
Patriarch Christodoulos attends the funeral in Rome of Pope John Paul II
MAXXI, the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, opens in Rome, built to an award-winning design by Zaha Hadid
