Historical clue formulations

• City gained by Rome during the First Punic War — 2012-05-03
• Sicilian seaport — 2007-01-29
• Sicilian seaport — 2006-06-11
• Capital of Sicily — 2004-06-15
• Capital on the Tyrrhenian Sea — 2002-11-15
• Site of a 1943 Allied victory — 1998-12-20
• Where gelato was invented — 1997-02-16
• Frank Capra's birthplace — 1996-01-06
• Sicilian city — 1995-08-27