Tag: ephemerides
November 19,1988: Alter Mojze Goldman and the French Resistance
The French Legion of Honor admitted Alter Mojze Goldman on this date in 1988, in recognition of his role in the French Resistance in the south of France during World War II. Goldman was...
November 15 1942: Devra Gail Kleiman, a zoologist who saved the golden lion tamarind...
Devra Gail Kleiman, a zoologist who saved the golden lion tamarind monkey from extinction and did the research needed to get giant pandas to breed in captivity, was born in the Bronx on this...
November 14, 1903: Women’s Trade Union League
The Women’s Trade Union League was founded in Boston on this date in 1903 during the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor.
Led in part by Lillian Wald, the organization brought together wealthy...
13 de noviembre de 1969: Activist Lori Berenson was born
Lori Berenson, who was arrested at age 26 and served fifteen years of a twenty-year sentence in Peruvian prisons for, as the New York Times reported March 2, 2011, “abetting a terrorist plot that never took place,”...
November 12, 1787: Jews acquire family names
In a decree promulgated on this date in 1787, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II ordered all Jews in the Hapsburg Empire to acquire family names. The decree came five years after the Edict of...
November 11, 1920: Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel, Ghetto Fighter
Chaike Belchatowska, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who survived to tell about it, was born in Warsaw on this date in 1920. The child of a radical mother, and a member of...
November 9/10, 1938: Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass”
November 9 marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” a major milestone in the persecution of Jews under the Third Reich and an unusually important event which took place in full...
November 6, 1903: The Speed-Demon Motorina
Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt, a car racer described as “The Fastest Girl on Earth” (she held world records for both car and speedboat velocity), was fined five pounds on this date in 1903 for speeding...
November 5, 1916: The Everett Lumber Massacre
Abraham Rabinowitz, 22, was among between seven and twelve members of the Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies) who were killed on a dock in Everett, Washington on this date in 1916, when...
November 4, 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv’s Kings Square in Israel. Rabin later died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
The 73-year-old prime minister...