1928 in Italy

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister: Benito Mussolini

  Events

• April 12 – A bomb, directed against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, kills 18 people at the Milan Trade Fair.
• May 24 – The airship Italia reaches the North Pole, with expedition leader Umberto Nobile on board. The ship crashes on its return journey.
• June 24 – Umberto Nobile and survivors of the crash of the airship Italia are rescued by the crew of a Swedish aeroplane.
• August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.

  Births

• January 2 – Alberto Zedda, conductor and musicologist
• January 9 – Domenico Modugno, singer, songwriter, actor and politician
• July 26 – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy
• December 22
• * Piero Angela, Italian writer, journalist and television presenter
• * Luisa Massimo, Italian pediatrician

  Deaths

• February 28 – Armando Diaz, 66, general, Marshal of Italy
• March 31 – Medardo Rosso, 70, sculptor
• May 25
• *Aldo Pontremoli, 32, physicist
• *Renato Alessandrini, 37, explorer
• July 17 – Giovanni Giolitti, 85, 13th Prime Minister of Italy