Tag: ephemerides
February 8, 1878: Martin Buber, German religious philosopher, was born
Martin Buber, (born February 8, 1878, Vienna—died June 13, 1965, Jerusalem), German-Jewish religious philosopher, biblical translator and interpreter, and master of German prose style. Buber’s philosophy was centred on the encounter, or dialogue, of...
February 6, 1897: Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, founder of the Jewish cartel “Murder Inc.” was...
Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, head of the organized crime death squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s and the only major mob boss to be executed for a specific murder, was born on this date in...
February 5, 1993: Hans Jonas, a pioneer of medical ethics, died
Hans Jonas, who fled Nazi Germany (his mother died in Auschwitz), fought in Israel’s war of independence, and in 1964 publicly denounced his mentor, Martin Heidegger, for having pro-Nazi views, died on this date...
February 4, 2004: Facebook shows its face
Facebook was launched from a Harvard dormitory room by Mark Zuckerberg, then 19 years old, and three classmates on this date in 2004. By summer they had an investor, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of...
February 3, 1809: Felix Mendelssohn, German musician and composer, was born
Felix Mendelssohn, in full Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, (born February 3, 1809, Hamburg —died November 4, 1847, Leipzig), German composer, pianist, musical conductor, and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic...
February 2, 1943: The Battle of Stalingrad Ends
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. The battle is infamous as one of the largest,...
February 1, 2003: Ilan Ramon, the nation’s first Israeli astronaut for NASA, died
Israel celebrates and then mourns when Ilan Ramon, the nation’s first Israeli astronaut for NASA, takes part in the STS-107 Columbia space mission. Ramon, an Israeli fighter pilot, was the space shuttle payload specialist.
He...
January 28, 1887: Arthur Rubinstein, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century,...
On January 28, 1887, Arthur Rubinstein, one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, was born in Poland. The artist performed at an early age with Joseph Joachim in Berlin and in his...
January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
In the U.S., and other nations, memorials stand as continual reminders of the horror of the Holocaust and the importance of confronting the evils that brought it about. The United Nations designated January 27...
January 26, 1980: Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations
Egypt and Israel normalized their relations on January 26, 1980, opening the borders of land, sea and air. One day after handing over the El-Arish line (Sinai) to the Government of Cairo.
The Israeli Embassy...