Today is Wednesday 1 May 2024. We are on the 122nd day of the year and there are 244 days left until the end of 2024.
In Trapani the sun rises at 6.13 am and sets at 8.01 pm.
The moon is waning and is 50% illuminated.
Saint of the day: Saint Joseph Worker, blacksmith, carpenter and carpenter as well as husband of Mary and father on earth of Jesus. He is defined as “the Just” for his respect for the Law. He was a great worker, dedicated to more manual tasks such as carpentry. Hence his attribution as protector of workers.
Sicilian proverb: “Lu travagghiu does the stuff” translates to “Work makes stuff.” It means that work is what leads to fulfillment and success, underlining the importance and value of work in producing concrete results.
Aphorism of the day: “In May you do what you want” – This aphorism suggests that the month of May is a time of freedom and pleasure, a time to enjoy life after hard work.
Born today: Leonardo Bonucci, footballer, was born on 1 May 1987.
Curiosity: May 1st is Labor Day, an international day celebrated to honor workers’ achievements in the field of labor rights. It is celebrated in memory of the union struggles to obtain better working conditions, such as the eight-hour working day and other rules that protect workers. The holiday also commemorates the historic event of 1886, when Chicago workers went on strike to demand the eighth working day and were brutally repressed by the police.
It happened today: In the last days of the Second World War, thousands of Germans took their own lives, terrified by the advance of the Red Army. The most striking case is that of the town of Demmin, where on 1 May 1945 a thousand people committed suicide. At the same time, in the Führerbunker in Berlin, the First Lady of the Reich was preparing to do the same thing. In her last chilling letter to her eldest son, a prisoner of war in South Africa, Magda Goebbels (photo) explained: “Our glorious ideal has gone to ruin and with it everything beautiful and wonderful I have known in my life. The world that will come after the Führer and National Socialism is no longer worth living in and therefore I will take the children with me, because they are too good for the life that would await them, and a merciful God will understand me when I give them salvation.” She gave her six children morphine and killed them one after the other with cyanide. She then rose to the surface with her husband and the two of her killed themselves in the Chancellery garden.
