January 7, 2024 – Italy and New Mexico

Today, the flag of Italy and New Mexico fly.

In Italy, January 7th is Festa del Tricolore (National Flag Day). The official celebration of the day is held in Reggio Emilia, the city where the Italian tricolour was first adopted as flag by an Italian sovereign state, the Cispadane Republic, on 7 January 1797.

The flag of New Mexico flies in recognition of the state’s admission to the Union on January 6, 1912 as the 47th state. Adopted on March 15, 1925, New Mexico is the only state flag to not have any blue or white. It ranked first out of 72 in a survey of American and Canadian flags conducted by the North American Vexillological Association in 2001.