1. Mike Bongiorno moved to Turin, when he was young.
16 Facts About Mike Bongiorno
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Mike Bongiorno was captured and spent seven months in the San Vittore Prison in Milan and was then deported to a German concentration camp.
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Mike Bongiorno was liberated before the end of the war due to an exchange of war prisoners between the United States and Germany.
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Mike Bongiorno returned to New York and in 1946 started work at the radio headquarters of Il Progresso Italo-Americano newspaper.
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Mike Bongiorno appeared on the first day of official public TV transmissions in Italy with Arrivi e partenze on the TV channel RAI.
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Mike Bongiorno moved to Tele Milano, one of the first Italian commercial TV channels owned by Mediaset, the media company founded by Silvio Berlusconi, to host I sogni nel cassetto.
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From 1991 to 2001, Mike Bongiorno hosted Bravo, Bravissimo, a festival featuring preteen musicians, dancers and singers from all over the world.
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Mike Bongiorno was a guest on the second episode of the Gianfranco Funari's show Apocalypse Show on Rai 1.
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On December 13,2007, Mike Bongiorno was awarded an honorary degree Honoris Causa by IULM University of Milan.
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On March 26,2009, Mike Bongiorno signed for Sky Italia after Mediaset decided not to renew his contract, where he planned to host a new game show on Sky Uno called RiSKYtutto, which had been scheduled to air in the autumn of 2009.
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On September 8,2009, at the age of 85, Mike Bongiorno died of a heart attack, while leaving the Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo, after a short holiday with his wife Daniela Zuccoli.
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Mike Bongiorno's body lay in repose for a few days at the Triennale in Milan before a state funeral was held in the Milan Cathedral on September 12,2009.
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Mike Bongiorno was buried in the family tomb, at Dagnente Cemetery, near Arona, Piedmont.
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On December 8,2011, Mike Bongiorno's body was recovered from a field near Milan.
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In 1996, Mike Bongiorno was made a Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus by Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, the last crown prince of the former Kingdom of Italy, and Head of the House of Savoy.
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On May 26,2004, on occasion of his 80th birthday, Mike Bongiorno was appointed a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the then Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.