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Tuesday, July 2 is the 184th day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days left in the year.
Saint of the day: San Bernardino
Proverb of July
If it’s not hot in July and August, the must will be sad.
It happened today
1925 – Water skiing was invented with the first ski run, lasting more than a minute, performed by Ralph Samuelson
1937 – Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappear in the Pacific Ocean, while attempting the first round-the-world flight by airplane along the equator.
1938 – Inspector Manetta appears for the first time in Mickey Mouse
1944 – In Los Angeles, Norman Granz, an American producer and record producer, organizes the Jazz at the Philharmonic or “JATP” concert, one of the most important moments in the history of jazz.
1957 – Turin: FIAT officially presents the Fiat 500 at the Sporting Club
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act (1964), which prohibits segregation in public places
1976 – North and South Vietnam unite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
1993 – Battle of the pasta factory in Mogadishu: three Italian soldiers fall
2002 – United States: Steve Fossett becomes the first man in the world to fly around the world alone in a hot air balloon
2005 – Rome, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Philadelphia and Moscow host the Live 8 concerts organized by Bob Geldof to raise awareness among the protagonists of the next G8 meeting on African problems
2008 – Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian stateswoman kidnapped by FARC in 2002, is freed
2011 – The religious wedding ceremony between HSH Albert II of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock takes place in the courtyard of the Prince’s Palace of Monaco.
Birthdays
Dawn Antonella Parietti – Italian television host, commentator and actress. She has starred in several films in various roles, including Abbronzatissimi in 1991 with Eva Grimaldi and Jerry Cala’. She hosted Alballoscuro on La 7 (2 July 1961)
Ashley Michelle Tisdale – American actress, singer-songwriter and model (July 2, 1985)
Margot Robbie – Australian actress (2 July 1990)
Raffaele Vannoli – Italian actor (July 2, 1971)
