On This Day for June 7 - Lateran Treaty ratified, Prince is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-07 10:03 Updated: 2020-06-07 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 07

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Prince

FEATURED EVENT

1929

Lateran Treaty ratified

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2006: Jordanian-born Iraqi militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—the self-styled leader in Iraq of the Islamic militant group al-Qaeda, thought by many to have been the mastermind behind numerous terrorist acts—was killed in a U.S. military air strike.

1982: Graceland—Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in 1977—was opened for public tours and became one of the top tourist attractions in the United States.

1970: English novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic E.M. Forster, whose acclaimed novels included Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924), died in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. [ Test your knowledge of English authors.]

1917: Poet Gwendolyn Brooks , whose work depicted the everyday life of urban African Americans and who was the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1949), was born. [Sort fact from fiction in our poetry quiz.]

1832: Authored by Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, the Reform Act of 1832 came into effect—the first of the British parliamentary bills that expanded the electorate for the House of Commons and rationalized the representation of that body. [Take our quiz about British culture and politics.]

1576: English navigator Martin Frobisher, seeking a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean, departed England, and weeks later he reached Labrador and Baffin Island and discovered the bay that now bears his name. [Take our quiz about exploration and discovery.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1952

Liam Neeson
Northern Irish American actor

1958

Prince
American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer

1917

Dean Martin
American singer and actor

1975

Allen Iverson
American basketball player

1848

Paul Gauguin
French painter