Tag: ephemerides
October 16, 1886: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, was born
On October 16, 1886, Israel’s future inaugural prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, was born in Płońsk, Poland.
Originally known as David Gruen, Ben-Gurion was born to Victor Gruen, one of the leaders of the Hovevei Zion movement,...
October 15th, 1842: Karl Marx became the editor of Rheinische Zeitung (“Rhenish Newspaper”)
Karl Marx became the editor of Rheinische Zeitung (“Rhenish Newspaper”), an anti-authoritarian newspaper, on this date in 1842. Earlier in the year, Marx had published a six-part series in the newspaper about freedom of...
October 13th, 1983: Ruby Myers, died in Mumbai at 76
India’s silent film star and movie producer, Sulochana, whose real name was Ruby Myers, died in Mumbai at 76 on this date in 1983. Discovered while working as a telephone operator, she became, in...
October 13th, 1925: Lenny Bruce, American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist, was born
Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), who stretched the boundaries of free speech with comedy and commentary and taboo subjects, was born in Mineola, New York on this date in 1925. He first became controversial...
October 11, 1943: Trading cigarettes for jews
For the second day in a row, on this date in 1943, Yanis Lipke, a former dock worker in the port of Riga, Latvia, saved three Jews from the Riga ghetto by offering Latvian...
October 9, 1981: Mermelstein Vs. Holocaust Denial
Mel Mermelstein, a Czech-born survivor of Auschwitz, was successful in his suit against the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), a Holocaust-denial outfit, in Los Angeles Superior Court on this date in 1981. The year...
October 8, 1969: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) launched its “Days of Rage”...
The Weathermen faction of a splintered Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) launched its “Days of Rage” protest in Chicago on this date in 1969, based on John Gregory Jacobs’ call to “bring the...
October 1st. 2008: Boris Yefimov (Fridlyand), the chief illustrator of Izvestia and a political...
Boris Yefimov (Fridlyand), the chief illustrator of Izvestia and a political cartoonist for more than ninety years, died at 109 (variously reported as 107 and 108) on this date in 2008. Yefimov published his first book...
September 30: The World Series on television
Baseball’s World Series was broadcast on television for the first time starting on this date in 1947. Viewing of the seven-game series, in which the all-white New York Yankees would defeat the newly integrated...
September 24th, 1683: French King Louis XIV ordered Jews expelled from French colonies in...
French King Louis XIV ordered Jews expelled from French colonies in North America on this date in 1683. The order was mostly ignored where it would be most relevant, in Martinique, the Caribbean land...