* 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.

Hinkle hosted the Indiana High School Athletic Association Championships for many years ( including Milan's 1954 championship ), Butler University also is notable for its men's and women's basketball teams.

During the past three decades, the city has seen a dramatic rise in the number of international migrants, and today 15. 2 % of Milan's population is foreign born.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Milan has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ); the Mediterranean Sea is too far to exert any influence, so Milan's climate is similar to much of northern Italy's inland plains, where sultry summers and cold, wet winters prevail.

During winter, average temperatures in the city center fall below freezing levels (− 2 ° C / 28 ° F ) and significant accumulations of snow can occur: the historic average of Milan's area is during the period between 1950 and 2007, with a record of during the snowfall of January 1985.

The largest and most important example of Gothic architecture in Italy, Milan's Cathedral, is the fourth largest in the world after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Cathedral of Seville and a new cathedral in Côte d ' Ivoire.

Giardini Pubblici is among Milan's oldest remaining public parks, founded on 29 November 1783, and completed around 1790.

In Andrea Alciato's Emblemata ( 1584 ), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of Milan's city walls, a boar is seen lifted from the excavation.

Milan's elevation of is the highest point between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico on the former Illinois Central Railroad.

Milan's City Hall is located downtown.

Milan's own museum is the Hack House, built in " Victorian-era " 1888.

Other buildings had been constructed with interior courtyards fronting on churches or chapels ; King's College, Cambridge, dating from 1441, is one such example ; the old Ospedale Maggiore, Milan's first hospital, begun in 1456 by Antonio Filarete, is another grid-like building with interior courtyards.

Given Milan's notoriously damp and foggy climate, the Milanese consider it a fair-weather day when the Madonnina is visible from a distance, as it is so often covered by mist.

The airport, with Linate Airport and Malpensa Airport, is part of Milan's airport system.

After Silvio Berlusconi's victory in 2001, the gradual campaign against judges reached the point where it is not only openly acceptable to criticize judges for having carried out Mani pulite, but it has become increasingly difficult to broadcast opinions favorable to Milan's pool.

Traditionally, this is the only line presented on the runway which is shown during Milan's fashion week, but this has not been strictly the case in recent years.

The Galleria connects two of Milan's most famous landmarks: The Duomo and the Teatro Alla Scala, but the Galleria is a landmark in its own right.

The Galleria is often nicknamed il salotto di Milano ( Milan's drawing room ), due to its numerous shops and importance as a common Milanese meeting and dining place.

Filippo " Pippo " Inzaghi, (; born 9 August 1973 ) is an Italian retired professional footballer, who currently serves as the head coach for A. C. Milan's Allievi Nazionali ( under-17 ) team.

He is also Milan's top international goal scorer in the club's history with 43 goals.

He had been hopeful of playing for his country at the 1994 World Cup as well as for his club in the 1994 – 95 season after spending the whole 1993 – 94 season out of action ( missing Milan's victory in the European Cup as well as their Serie A title glory ), but his club ordered him not to take part in the World Cup amid fear of ruining his rehabilitation.

P2 became the target of considerable attention in the wake of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano ( one of Milan's principal banks, owned in part by the Vatican Bank ), and the suspicious 1982 death of its president Roberto Calvi in London, initially ruled a suicide but later prosecuted as a murder.

Milan's Archbishop Carlo Borromeo ( 1538 – 1584 ), later canonized as a saint, set an example by visiting the remotest parishes and instilling high standards.

In the 13th century, the physician Lanfranc of Milan's Chiurgia Magna described concussion as brain " commotion ", also recognizing a difference between concussion and other types of traumatic brain injury ( though many of his contemporaries did not ), and discussing the transience of post-concussion symptoms as a result of temporary loss of function from the injury.

Shevchenko made Champions League history the following season ; on 23 November 2005, he scored all four goals in Milan's 4 – 0 group-stage drubbing of Fenerbahçe, becoming only the fifth player to accomplish this feat ; his company includes Marco van Basten, Simone Inzaghi, Dado Pršo and Ruud van Nistelrooy ( while Lionel Messi joined that group in the 2009 – 10 season ), and the only one to have done it in an away game.

* L. O. V. E ( 2011 ), a 36-foot white marble sculpture middle finger sticking straight up from an otherwise fingerless hand, pointing away from Milan's stock market

He made his final home start in Milan's 3-2 loss to Udinese on 19 May 2007, converting a penalty that marked his first Serie A goal since the 1991-92 season ( a left-footed volley against Roma on 3 November 1991 ), and left the pitch near the end of the match to a standing ovation.

Milan's Archbishop Carlo Borromeo ( 1538-1584 ), later canonized as a saint, suggested the Roman Catechism, giving full scope to his zeal for the reformation of the clergy.

On September 1 ( Matchday 2 ), on his second appearance but first full-debut, Pazzini netted a hat-trick in Milan's 3-1 victory over Bologna, with his style of play drawing comparisons with Milan legend Filippo Inzaghi, who had retired a couple of months earlier.

In December 1969, four bombs struck Rome's Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II ( Altare della Patria ), the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Milan's Banca Commerciale and the Banca Nazionale dell ' Agricoltura.

In 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused Valentinian II's imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian troops.

In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples.

The production by Milan's La Scala of his first opera, Oberto in November 1839 achieved a degree of success, after which Bartolomeo Merelli, La Scala's impresario, offered Verdi a contract for three more works.

In 1955, the year after Attucks had lost in the semistate final ( state quarterfinals ) to Milan's championship team, Attucks gained fame by winning the Indiana state championship, becoming the first all-black school in the nation to win a state title open to all schools regardless of race.

In addition, Milan's population seems to have stabilized in recent years, with signs of recovery as it grew by five percent since 2001.

The justification for setting aside the capitulations, seen to be under way by the Duke of Milan's ambassador as early as 21 September, lay in connecting any abridgement of the Pope's absolute monarchy in the Papal States with a consequent abridgement of his sole authority in spiritual matters.

One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Milan's Articolo 31, then and still today produced by Franco Godi, who had written the soundtrack to the animated TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s.

In 1990 – 91 Milan's pursuit of a third consecutive European Cup was cut short by Olympique de Marseille at the quarter-final stage.

In 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused an imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian troops.

The state authorities had been approached by the Duchy of Milan in 1422, with a treaty, that prohibited Florence's interference with Milan's impending war with the Republic of Genoa.

" The band toured much more, participating in Milan's Rolling Stone magazine-sponsored venue, plus as a show headlined by a German band.

He followed the course of his brothers by enrolling at Milan's Bocconi University.

Skyy Spirits of San Francisco, a vodka producer and subsidiary of Milan's Gruppo Campari, will market Cabo Wabo globally, with continued participation by Hagar.

A good decision by the coach, as Tomasson managed to score 12 Serie A goals, and thereby played an important role in Milan's victory of the Serie A title.

On the 24th of November 2010 Fede was assaulted at a restaurant in Milan's city centre by Gian Germano Giuliani, the owner of Giuliani Pharmaceuticals.

Despite this, O ' Leary once again avoided any risk of relegation and signed AC Milan's international defender Martin Laursen, highly rated Chelsea prodigy Carlton Cole and acclaimed French midfielder Mathieu Berson, while still restricted by a tight budget imposed by chairman Doug Ellis.

He became the oldest footballer ever to play in the Champions League, in Milan's 1-0 loss to AEK Athens on 21 November 2006, at 40 years and 211 days, topping the previous record held by Belgian goalkeeper Dany Verlinden at 40 years and 116 days.