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World UFO Day

World UFO Day is held on July 2. This event in the first decade of the month July is annual.

World UFO Day is observed and celebrated on 2 July every year to raise awareness about Unidentified Flying Objects UFOs) and alien life forms. The day aims to discuss and educate people about UFOs, flying saucers, and sightings of bright blue light in the sky that make headlines across the world.

Some countries mark World UFO Day on 24 June; it was on this date that pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a UFO sighting for the first time in the United States.

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International Tartan Day on July 1 (Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events);

International Joke Day on July 1 (Take the opportunity to get the jokes started today);

International Chicken Wings Day on July 1;

World Day of the White Band Against Poverty on July 1 (as a reminder of the Millennium Goals signed in 2010);

International Reggae Day on July 1;

International Bidoof Day on July 1;

Second Half of the Year Day on July 1;

Swimming with wild dolphins in the Azores on July 1 (July and August);

Motorcyclist Day in Bolivia on July 1;

I Forgot Day on July 2;

Kiss A Brunette Day on July 2;

World No Plastic Bags Day on July 3;

Disobedience Day on July 3;