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11th November 1956 - The brave fight of Hungarian people against the Soviet invasion.
Cover by Walter Molino.

5th August 1900 - On 29th July 1900, King of Italy Umberto I is shot to death by Italian anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza (Lombardy, Northern Italy).
Cover by Achille Beltrame.

3rd February 1952 - French Colonel Norbert Philippe Durand is assassinated by Tunisian nationalists.
Cover by Walter Molino.

4th November 1956 - Anti-USSR protests in Poland.
Cover by Walter Molino.

18th November 1956 - Thousands of Hungarian refugees go toward the Austrian border. Among them, the children of the fighters for freedom.
Cover by Walter Molino.

9th December 1956 - In the course of the naval bombing of Cairo, in the war for the Suez Canal, an Egyptian soldier stays in his sentry post outside the Italian Consulate, although the Italian consul Vincenzo Mareri ordered him to go to the shelter. After the bombing, the soldier was found dead.
Cover by Walter Molino.

9th June 1957 - An Algerian terrorist kills Emir Ali Cekkal in Paris.
Cover by Walter Molino.

22th February 1958 - French bombers strike a village in Tunisia as a reprisal for previous turmoils.
Back covers by Rino Ferrari.

27th July 1958 - Coup d'etat in Iraq.
Cover by Rino Ferrari.

11th August 1958 - Former Hungarian athletics champion Ferenc Nagy jumps off the iron curtain.
Back cover by Rino Ferrari.

28th September 1958 - An Algerian terrorist tries to kill French Ministry of Information Jacques Soustelle in Paris.
Cover by Walter Molino.

7th February 1960 - French far-right activists rise up in Algeri after that French General Jacques Massu is relieved of command.
Cover by Walter Molino.

14th February 1960 - French Army restore order in Algeri.
Cover by Walter Molino.

17th April 1960 - Riots in many towns in South Africa.
Cover by Walter Molino.

24th April 1960 - South-African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is seriously wounded by gun shots.
Cover by Walter Molino.

24th July 1960 - Italian vice-consul Tito Spoglia and five European people are assassinated in Congo.
Cover by Walter Molino.

27th August 1961 - On 13th August 1961, German Democratic Republic starts building the Berlin Wall.
Cover by Walter Molino.

1st October 1961 - On 18th September 1961, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden) dies in an airplane crash near Ndula (Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia).
Cover by Walter Molino.

3rd June 1962 - Thousands of people try to flee Communist China, going toward Hong Kong.
Cover by Walter Molino.

1st December 1963 - On 22nd November 1963, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas (Texas, U.S.A.).

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Selected covers of Italian weekly newsmagazine La Domenica del Corriere.

Political Turmoils.

La Domenica del Corriere (The Sunday of Corriere) was a weekly newsmagazine whose first issue was published on 8th January 1899. Its name was after the eminent Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera (The courier of the evening). La Domenica del Corriere was the most popular newsmagazine from its beginning to the 1960s.
Above: cover of the first issue, by Achille Beltrame, about a dramatic snow storm in Montenegro.

Achille Beltrame

Walter Molino
Italian graphics and painters Achille Beltrame (until the 1930s) and Walter Molino (from the late 1940s to the 1960s) were the most popular authors of covers for La Domenica del Corriere.

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