Moro, Aldo
Born: Sep 23, 1916 AD
Died: 1978 AD, at 61 years of age.
Nationality:
Italian
Categories:
Politician
1916 - Born in Maglie, in the province of Lecce on the 23rd of September.
1941 - He joined and became president of the FUCI.
1946 - Moro was elected to the Constituent Assembly and helped to draft the Italian constitution.
1948 - He was then re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives.
1963-1968 - Leader of the parliamentary coalition he served as Prime Minister.
1970 - He was one of the political leaders who gave the deepest attention to Enrico Berlinguer's project of a so-called Compromesso Storico.
1978 - On the 16th of March, Moro was kidnapped in Via Fani, a street in Rome, by a militant Communist group, known as the Red Brigades and led by Mario Moretti, after the murder of his 5 escort agents.
- Died on the 9th of May.
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