Tag: ephemerides
March 5, 1968: Syd Nathan’s “Race Records”
Record producer Syd Nathan, a high school drop-out who founded King Records in Cincinnati, died at 63 on this date in 1968. King Records released James Brown’s first single, “Please, Please”, as well as...
March 3,1337: Gersonides (Rabbi Levi ben Gershon), also known as the Ralbag, observed a...
Gersonides (Rabbi Levi ben Gershon), also known as the Ralbag, observed a solar eclipse on this date in 1337 from his home in Provence. He became the only stargazer before modern times who correctly...
February 26: Protesting the Murder of Ilan Halimi
On this date in 2006, 100,000 Parisians protested the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a working-class, Morrocan Jewish man of 24 by an anti-Semitic gang.
Twenty-seven members of the mostly Muslim "Barbarians" were...
February 19, 1997: Leo Rosten, author of “Joys Of Yiddish”, dies at age 88
Leo Rosten, the author of The Joys of Yiddish and numerous other popular, witty and erudite books, died on this date in 1997 in New York City at age 88. Rosten earned a doctorate in political...
February 18, 1970: Not Guilty
The Chicago Seven Trial ended on this date in 1970 with acquittals for Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner on charges of conspiracy. Five of them were...
February 17, 1988: Israeli writers protest
”I’m for a Palestinian state, because that is the way to life. All other roads lead to death.” These words were spoken by Amos Oz to a gathering of 800, organized by the Israeli...
February 14, 1896: Theodor Herzl Published “The Jewish State” (Der Judenstaat)
Der Judenstaat (German, literally The Jews' State, commonly rendered as The Jewish State) is a pamphlet written by Theodor Herzl and published in February 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung. It...
February 11,1953: The USSR breaks off relations with Israel
The Soviet Union broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on this date in 1953, only one month after the “Doctors’ Plot” was announced in Moscow and only one month before Stalin died, probably from...
February 10, 1918: Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary party in Russia...
Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary party in Russia who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on August 30, 1918, was born in the Ukraine on this date in 1890. Kaplan spent...
February 9, 1990: The demolition of the Berlin Wall began
Berlin Wall, German Berliner Mauer, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. In the years...