Tag: ephemerides
September 29, 1941: Babi Yar massacre begins
The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children begins on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
The German army took Kiev on September 19, and special SS squads prepared...
August 17, 1911, Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champion, was born
On August 17, 1911, Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvínnik was born. A Soviet chess player, world champion several times between 1948 and 1963. At the age of 24, Botvinnik was among the world chess elite, winning...
May 19, 1588: The Spanish Armada
The Jews of Spain had their revenge on the Inquisition and the Spanish monarch on this date in 1588 when the Spanish Armada arrived in Lisbon in preparation for an attack on England, and...
May 12, 1928: Burt Bacharach, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter an Singer was born
Award-winning songwriter/composer Burt Bacharach is the man behind a wide array of hits, including "What the World Needs Now Is Love," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," "Close to...
April 23, 1900: Joseph Green, renowned Yiddish theater actor, is born
On April 23, 1900, Joseph Green was born in Poland, who emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became a renowned actor in the Yiddish theater.
In 1915, during World War I, he trained...
April 22, 1964: New York City’s third World’s Fair opened on this date
New York City’s third World’s Fair opened on this date in Flushing Meadow in 1964. A key figure in the feasibility study that brought the fair to New York was Victor Gruen, an Austrian-born...
April 21, 1945: B.B. King and The Bihari Brothers
The Bihari Brothers — Jules, Saul, Joseph and Lester, sons of Hungarian Jewish immigrants — launched Modern Records, a pioneering R & B label, in Los Angeles on this date in 1945.
Among their most successful...
April 19, 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left...
April 14, 1912: David Sarnoff and the Titanic
After the Titanic crashed into an iceberg and rapidly began to take on water in the final minutes of this date in 1912, David Sarnoff, a telegrapher at the Marconi Wireless station atop the...
April 7, 529: The Code of Justinian was issued on this date
The Code of Justinian, the first of four parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”) compiled by command of Justinian I, the Emperor of Rome, was issued on this date in 529.
Among its...