The victory gave Italy its first gold medal of the championships.
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While he had success in exhibitions, leading the Americans to their first win over four-time world champion Italy and their first victory at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium, the Americans struggled in qualifying and weren't assured of advancing to the regional finals until the final game of the semis.
Marcato missed the penalty but made no mistake with a conversion five minutes later after Italy's first try of the game.
Capello counts a 1973 goal against England, helping Italy to their first away win at Wembley, as a highlight of his career.
Muhammad Khatami paid a three-day state visit to Italy, the first Iranian leader to go to Western Europe since the 1979 revolution.
She has competed for Italy since 1994 and became Italy's first women's world champion in any event at the 1995 Gothenburg championships.
Italy's first opportunity of points came courtesy of a weak Scottish scrum.
Credito Italiano was Italy's first bank privatisation, at the end of 1993.
Emma Bonino, former Commissioner in Brussels and fervent pro-European, had been talked about as the strongest contender to be Italy's first female president.
Turn was Italy's first historical capital, where the country's kings lived.
In 1997, the then prime minister, Romano Prodi, made his compatriots tighten their belts again, to get Italy into the first batch of countries adopting the euro.
The last strike in April was Italy's first in two decades and brought more than 13 million workers onto the streets in protest at Mr Berlusconi's planned labour reform.
Borgo Sabotino, a sleepy coastal hamlet 80 kilometres south of Rome, not far from the site of Nero's and Cicero's seaside villas, was host to Italy's first commercial nuclear power station.
"Not every museum space has to be like a white box, " said Ms. Hadid, who designed Italy's first state contemporary art and architecture museum two years ago among many other award-winning buildings.
It was also announced that the tournament would become the Six Nations in 2000, with the addition of upstart Italy - the first new team to be added since France in 1910.
Two years ago Italy won their first ever away points in the championship with an 18-18 draw in Cardiff, while last season in the Stadio Flaminio they staged a fine comeback to down Wales 23-20.
Italy ended the first half in the ascendency but Lippi - knowing a win was of paramount importance - was still proactive at the break, bringing on Antonio di Natale and Mauro Camoranesi for Alberto Gilardino and Simone Pepe.
Wailing even more operatically are several cameo figures who have been able to exercise some influence under the present arrangement, but whose parties might be wiped out if a new law were to give Italy an entirely first-past-the-post system.
Italy will be the first real test of whether even the new, watered-down version of them will prevail.
First the Italy international's curled effort from 20 yards was touched over the bar by Schwarzer, before Aquilani drove a left-footed effort wide.
It seems very plausible that Italy will be the first country in the world to implement a new crowdfunding for equity law way ahead of the promising US law.
The New Zealand striker looked significantly offside but was nerveless in prodding his 20th goal in 37 internationals past Federico Marchetti, who was deputising for Italy's injured first-choice keeper Gianluigi Buffon.
The heads of the EU's four biggest economies - Britain, France, Germany and Italy - held a first crisis summit last week, but were split over the need for a common plan.
De Villota is only the sixth woman to be involved in the elite division of motorsport, the first being Italy's Maria Teresa de Filippis -- who raced in three grands prix for Maserati in 1958.
Lievremont also opted to retain the 5ft 5in wing Marc Andreu - who scored his first try for France against Italy and set up Yannick Jauzion for another on his first Test start - ahead of the more physically imposing Julien Malzieu.
More recently, other historians have suggested the telescope was first invented in Italy.
Early on Mr Emmott notes the spooky parallels between now and the early 1990s, when Italy's economic problems first became apparent.
In the first match against Italy Sergio Busquets had played slightly in front Xabi Alonso in the centre of the Spain midfield.
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