Monday 1 July is the 183rd day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Sant’Aronne
July Proverb
If it rains between July and August, it rains honey, oil and must
It happened today
1931 – Official inauguration of Milan Central Station
1960 – Italian Somalia becomes independent and joins Somaliland, definitively ending Italian administration
1967 – Italian Post Office introduces CAP (postal code)
1968 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is signed in Geneva by about sixty nations
1997 – UK cedes sovereignty over Hong Kong to People’s Republic of China
2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 (Tupolev TU-154) collides with a DHL Boeing 757 cargo plane over Überlingen, Germany, killing 71 people.
2003 – 500,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to protest, among other things, the government’s handling of plans to implement a new anti-subversion law required by Article 23 of the Basic Laws of Hong Kong
2005 – Italy says goodbye to compulsory military service: military conscription remains open only to volunteers
2009 – Swedish becomes official language of Sweden
2012 – The final of the 2012 European Football Championship takes place in Kiev, Italy-Spain, which sees Spain win 4-0; the Iberian national team confirms itself as European Champion, winning its 3rd European title
2013 – Croatia joins the European Union
2017 – At the Enzo Ferrari Park in Modena, Vasco Rossi performed in front of 220,000 people (a world record for tickets sold for a single artist), in the event to celebrate his forty-year career, Modena Park 2017.
Birthdays
Alessio Caruso – Italian actor (1 July 1961)
Francesca Reggiani – Italian comedian and actress (1 July 1959)
Nina Lisandrello – American actress (1 July 1988)
Mary Comegna – Italian actress (1 July 1989)
