|
|
|
|
|
 © Daniel Ajzen 2000, 2001. To Syndicate our content Click Here.
Thursday, July 2, 2009.
| On this day in history .. |
- 1787 - De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
- 1808 - Napoleon decreed that Jews must adopt family names
- 1858 - Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
- 1916 - Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
- 1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine
- 1928 - British parliament accept female sufferage
- 1940 - Hitler orders invasion of England
- 1941 - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
- 1972 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs
| Famous birthdays for this day .. |
- 0419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55)
- 1888 - Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
- 1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer
- 1933 - David Benjamin Lewin, composer
- 1947 - Larry David, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Fridays)/writer (Seinfeld)
- 1975 - Daniel Kowalski, Singapore, Aust swimmer (Olympics-bronze/silver-96)
| Famous deaths for this day .. |
- 1566 - Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62
- 1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88
- 1911 - Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54
- 1917 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies
- 1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies
- 1939 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies
- 1940 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies
If we missed a birth date, an event or a Yorzait please Click Here to let us know.
|