In the ephemeris of june 7 These events stand out that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world:
1810. Gazeta de Buenos Aires is published
The first number of the Gazette of Buenos Aires. It is the body for disseminating the ideas of the First Board, a few days following the May Revolution. Mariano Moreno, secretary of the Board, is its director. The date is remembered as Journalist’s Day in Argentina.
1936. Lola Mora dies
Dolores Candelaria Mora Vega de Hernández dies at the age of 69 in Buenos Aires. Better known as Lola Morathe sculptress was born in Tucumán, although it is argued that the birth might have been in El Tala, province of Salta. He took classes with the Italian Santiago Falcucci and then settled in Rome. He was entrusted with a statue of Juan Bautista Alberdi and in 1902 he returned to install his most famous work: the Fuente de las Nereidas, whose female nudes scandalized the Buenos Aires aristocracy. She alternated her residence between Argentina and Italy, until she returned definitively in 1915. She was commissioned with the Monument to the Flag, but President Marcelo T. de Alvear canceled the order. With her deteriorated health, she lived in Buenos Aires in the care of some nieces until her death.
1952. Nace Orhan Pamuk
The most prominent Turkish writer of recent decades is born in Istanbul: Orhan Pamuk. titles like my name is Red y Snow drew attention to his work at the beginning of this century. In 2005 he aroused the solidarity of a large part of the world’s intellectuals before the complaint of the Turkish State for not adhering to denialism. Pamuk publicly said that his country is responsible for the Armenian genocide and was prosecuted. The complaint did not prosper. He has also stood in solidarity with the Kurds. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Other works: the museum of innocence, Istanbul. city and memories y My father’s suitcase.
1987. Humberto Costantini dies
The writer Humberto Constantini He died at the age of 63. His literary career began in 1958 with the publication of the book of short stories just from here. Then came titles like A tall, blond man with mustaches, issues with life, Tell me regarding Funes y Bandeo. He was a member of the Revolutionary Workers Party and had to go into exile in 1976 in Mexico. Three years later his novel appeared Of gods, little men and policemen, for which he received the Casa de las Américas award. Back in Argentina she published The long night of Francisco Sanctisin 1984, made into a movie in 2017. At the time of his death he was working at Rhapsody by Raquel Libermana novel regarding the young woman who denounced the actions of Zwi Migdal, the organization dedicated to human trafficking.
1993. Passes away Drazen Petrovic
Dražen Petrović, one of the best basketball players in history, dies at the age of 28 in a traffic accident. He was 28 years old. He represented Yugoslavia until the 1990 World Cup consecration in Argentina. After the bloody division of the country, went on to play for Croatia and won the silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where he lost the final to the United States Dream Team (he already had bronze and silver medals playing for Yugoslavia at the 1984 and 1988 Games, respectively). He went through Real Madrid and came to the NBA to play for Portland Trail Blazers, where he had few minutes. He was traded to the New Jersey Nets, where he displayed all of his talent.
2001. The prosecution of Carlos Menem
Carlos Menem becomes the first constitutional president in Argentine history to be prosecuted with preventive detention for a corruption case. The former Peronist president testifies before federal judge Jorge Urso and he orders his arrest for one of the most serious events since the restoration of democracy: arms smuggling to Ecuador and Croatia, which included the blowing up of the Río Tercero Military Factory to hide the lack of war material. The case dates back to 1995 and starts in April 2001, when the magistrate orders the arrest of Emir Yoma, Menem’s ex-brother-in-law. Since then, several former officials have come to declare Commodore Py and have been arrested. Urso accuses Menem of leading an illicit association. The preventive detention is carried out in a fifth, owned by Armando Gostanianowner of the Casa de Moneda in the 90s. He remained there until November, when the Supreme Court dismisses the idea that government acts can be classified as illicit association. The trial takes place between 2008 and 2011 and ends with acquittals. At the appeal stage, Menem is sentenced to seven years in prison in 2013. He already enjoyed privileges as a senator for La Rioja. In 2017 the penalty is confirmed, of effective compliance, plus disqualification for public office, despite which he renews his bench that year. The Supreme Court accepts an extraordinary appeal and orders a new sentence. Finally, in 2018, the Criminal Cassation Chamber closes the file and acquits all those involved for not complying with the “principle of reasonable time” to reach a final judgment.
2008. Bernardo Neustadt dies
Bernardo Neustadt dies at the age of 83. Born in Romania, he came to the country as a child. His career spanned more than six decades. He renewed television journalism. He was a regular propagandist for the dictatorship and Menemism, as well as a staunch defender of neoliberalism and privatization.
2008. Dino Risi dies
Dino Risi dies at 91 in Rome. One of the pillars of Italian comedy, he was the director of classics such as Overtaking, The monsters y Women perfume. She received a lifetime achievement award for her at the 2002 Venice Film Festival.
2015. Muere Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee, emblem of horror cinema, ceases to exist at the age of 93. A veteran of the Second War, the English actor joined the Hammer studios. He assumed the role of the monster in the curse of frankenstein and later he personified Dracula. Directed by Terence Fisher, he acted in The Mummy y The Baskerville Mastiff. He also played Rasputin, with the addition of having known Prince Yusupov as a child, murderer of the mystic. He was a villain in the James Bond saga in The Man with the Golden Gun. She joined the prequels of Star Warsin the late 90s, and then participated in The Lord of the ringsin the skin of Saruman.
Furthermore, it is the World Food Safety Day.
