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Wednesday, July 3 is the 185th day of the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days left in the year.
Saint of the day: Saint Thomas
Proverb of July
July armchairs bring pumpkin with melon
It happened today
1938 – World speed record for a steam locomotive set in England by Mallard, which reached a speed of 203 km/h
1953 – Tyrolean mountaineer Hermann Buhl reaches the summit of Nanga Parbat (8,125 m)
1962 – Following a referendum, France declares Algeria’s independence
1971 – Paris, Doors singer James “Jim” Morrison dies of unclear causes
1981 – The New York Times publishes a short article about the outbreak of a “rare cancer” in some homosexuals in New York and Los Angeles: it is the first announcement in the national press of what would become the AIDS epidemic.
1988 – The U.S. Navy warship USS Vincennes (CG-49) shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people on board.
2006 – The UN member states rise to 192 (with the entry of Montenegro, which occurred on the previous 28th June)
2013 – Military coup in Egypt removes President Mohamed Morsi from power
2019 – Libya, east of Tripoli, Khalifa Haftar’s militias bomb a migrant detention center in Tajoura, causing 40 deaths and 80 injuries.
Birthdays
Flavio Insinna – Italian actor and television host (3 July 1965)
Tom Cruise – American director and actor (July 3, 1962)
Michael Soavi – Italian director, actor and screenwriter (3 July 1957)
Walter Veltroni – Italian politician, journalist and writer, former national secretary of the Democratic Party (3 July 1955)
