{"id":9530,"date":"2026-08-07T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:30:40","slug":"august-8-national-day-of-sacrifice-of-italian-workers-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2026\/08\/august-8-national-day-of-sacrifice-of-italian-workers-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8, National Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 8, Italy observes the \u2018National Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers Around the World,\u2019 marking the anniversary of the Marcinelle mining disaster in Belgium, where in 1956, 262 miners\u2014including 136 Italians\u2014lost their lives at the Bois du Cazier site.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, has paid tribute to the victims and addressed the following message to Italians abroad:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Videomessaggiodell&amp;apos;On. Ministro Antonio Tajani - Marcinelle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3bM-ejtgM4?start=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 8, Italy observes the \u2018National Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers Around the World,\u2019 marking the anniversary of the Marcinelle mining disaster in Belgium, where in 1956, 262 miners\u2014including 136 Italians\u2014lost their lives at the Bois du Cazier site. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9531,"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consmiami.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}