Tag: ephemerides
January 31: Sofya Yanovskaya And Marxist Mathematics
A mathematician and avid communist in the Soviet Union, Sofya Yanovskaya was born in Bessarabia on this date in 1896. She became a Bolshevik during the Russian revolution and served as an officer in...
January 29, 1905: Barnett Newman, abstract painter and lifelong anarchist, was born
An abstract painter and lifelong anarchist who specialized in intense color-field paintings, Barnett Newman was born in New York on this date in 1905. His best-known works are large canvases painted in flat yet...
January 16, 1933: Susan Sontag, influential writer, novelist and American essayist was born
Susan Sontag, née Susan Rosenblatt, (born January 16, 1933, New York, New York, U.S.—died December 28, 2004, New York), American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture.
Sontag (who adopted her...
January 3: From the field to the broadcast booth
Marty Glickman, sportscaster for the New York Knicks for 21 years and of the New York Giants (football) for 23 years, died on this date in 2001. Glickman was a sprinter with the U.S....
January 1, 1919: J.D. Salinger was born in Manhattan
J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger, whose 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is one of the most widely read literary works in history, was born in Manhattan on this date in 1919. His father...
December 27, 2010: Jonathan Pollak, anarchist activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands,...
Jonathan Pollak, an anarchist activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, was sentenced to three months in prison and fined 1,500 shekels on this date in 2010 for his 2008 arrest at a...
December 25: Christians around the world celebrate Christmas
Most Christians today probably can’t imagine Christmas on any other day than December 25, but it wasn’t always that way. In fact, for the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence, Jesus Christ’s birth wasn’t...
December 12, 1920: Israel’s united labor organization, the Histadrut was founded
Israel’s united labor organization, the Histadrut (HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B’Eretz Yisrael, the General Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel) was founded in Palestine on this date in 1920 through the efforts...
Nobember 21, 1945: Goldie Hawn was born
Goldie Hawn, whose arc in show business paralleled the arc of feminist empowerment in the 1970s, was born in Washington, DC on this date in 1945. Hawn played a giggling “dumb blonde” bikini girl...
November 18,1095: Launching The Crusades
The Council of Clermont, which launched the Crusades by declaring pilgrimage to Jerusalem to be the ultimate penance, convened in France on this date in 1095. More than 300 clerics and aristocrats attended in response to...