Antonio Segni , from Sassari like Cossiga, resigned as President of the Republic for health reasons two and a half years into his term and in 1967, against his will, found himself at the center of a journalistic investigation into an alleged coup plot—the so-called "Solo Plan"—which involved Carabinieri General De Lorenzo. He had a son, Mario, also a politician and one of the key figures in the referendum campaign of the 1990s. Today he is president of the Foundation named after the former head of state and fights to lift the shadows of history from his father's name.
Thus – also remembering Enrico Berlinguer from Sassari – the director of L'Unione Sarda Emanuele Dessì returns to December 1, 1972, when Antonio Segni, Head of State from 1962 to 1964, died. It is the anniversary that opens the week from December 1 to 7 in which Dessì returns as a columnist for «Il giorno e la Storia», the Rai Cultura program created by Giovanni Paolo Fontana, broadcast every day at 12.10 am and repeated at 8.30 am, 11.30 am, 2.00 pm and 8.10 pm on Rai Storia.
After the anniversary of Segni's death, on Tuesday 2nd the memory goes to Gianni Versace , one of the most beloved stylists in the world, born in 1946, and Wednesday 3rd marks the date of the historic meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Malta, in 1989, at the end of which the end of the Cold War was announced .
On Thursday 4th, Dessì celebrates one of the most eclectic and prolific musical geniuses of American counterculture, Frank Zappa , who died in 1993. From his first album “Freak Out”, recorded with the group “The Mothers of Invention”, his satirical and irreverent streak fully emerges.
From music to comics and painting: Friday the 5th is the day in which, in 1901, Walt Elias Disney , pioneer of animated cinema and “father” of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, was born in Chicago, while Saturday the 6th marks the 6th of 1926 when the French painter Claude Monet, considered the main exponent of Impressionism, died in Giverny, in Upper Normandy.
The director's week of L'Unione Sarda ends on Sunday 7th by recalling the day in 1941 when, by surprise, more than 350 Japanese planes destroyed the US Pacific Fleet at the Pearl Harbour base in the Hawaiian archipelago.
(Unioneonline)