it happened today
The rebellion began on 7 June 1640, the day of Corpus Domini (which is why it went down in history as the “Corpus de Sang”). Catalan farmers and harvesters, frustrated by troops from Madrid – stationed in the region as they were engaged in the Franco-Spanish War – entered Barcelona and attacked government officials. About twenty people died, including the Viceroy, the Count of Santa Coloma. This was the beginning of the rebellion in Catalonia (or the “Rippers’ War”), which would have a more lasting impact on Rousseau’s occupation of France. Antoni Gaudí was walking along the Gran Via de les Cortés Catalanes in Barcelona on June 7, 1926, when he was struck by the number 30 tram. At first he was mistaken for a beggar. The very next day the priest of the Sagrada Familia recognized him at the Santa Creu Hospital. However, it was too late: the great architect died a few days later. The massive church, on the construction of which he had worked for the previous forty years, would remain unfinished. ,Luigi Gaetani,
born day
Paul Gauguin, June 7, 1848, French painter
James J. Braddock, June 7, 1905, American Boxer
Dean Martin, June 7, 1917, American singer, actor and showman
James Ivory, June 7, 1928, American film director, screenwriter and producer
Pippo Baudo, 7 June 1936, Television and radio host
Tom Jones, (born June 7, 1940), Welsh singer and actor
Muammar Gaddafi, June 7, 1942, Libyan soldier, revolutionary and politician
Enrico Montesano, 7 June 1945, Actor, TV host, singer and cabaret performer
Liam Neeson, (born June 7, 1952), British actor
Prince, born June 7, 1958, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
Mike Pence, June 7, 1959, American politician
Tom McCarthy, June 7, 1966, American director, screenwriter and actor
Cafu, born 7 June 1970, former Brazilian footballer
Anna Kournikova, (born 7 June 1981), Russian former tennis player
Iggy Azalea, born 7 June 1990, Australian rapper
Emily Ratajkowski, June 7, 1991, American Supermodel and Actress
George Ezra, 7 June 1993, British singer-songwriter
Swae Lee, born June 7, 1993, American rapper, singer and record producer
Vittoria Ceretti, June 7, 1998, Supermodel
dead of day
Friedrich Hölderlin, June 7, 1843, German poet
Alessandro La Marmora, June 7, 1855, General and Patriot
Alan Turing, born June 7, 1954, British mathematician, logician, cryptographer and philosopher
Dorothy Parker, June 7, 1967, American author, poet and journalist
Edward Morgan Forster, 7 June 1970, British author
Henry Miller, June 7, 1980, American author, painter and travel reporter
Dino Risi, 7 June 2008, director and screenwriter
Christopher Lee 7 June 2015, British actor and singer
Guglielmo Epifani, 7 June 2021, trade unionist and politician
saint of the day
St Robert of Newminster, Benedictine Abbot. He was born in the country of Gargrave, in Yorkshire, at the end of the 11th century. He studied at the University of Paris and then returned to England and was ordained a priest. He left the parish of Gargrave to devote himself to a more contemplative life. In 1138 he founded the new Newminster Abbey, of which he became its first abbot. According to tradition, he was endowed with the ability to prophesy and there are many miraculous legends associated with his tomb in Newminster Abbey.