On this day in history
February 7
Graeco-RomanChristianHinduScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on February 7 this year.
- R. Ovadia Hedayad. 1969 CE
Sephardi kabbalist and posek; head of Yeshivat HaMekubalim
- 457 CEGraeco-Roman
Leo I was proclaimed Eastern Roman emperor and crowned at Constantinople, the first ruler recorded receiving his crown from the hand of the city's patriarch.
- 1878 CEChristian · died
Pope Pius IX, whose long pontificate saw the First Vatican Council, died in Rome.
- 1937 CEHindu · died
Swami Akhandananda, a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna and third president of the Ramakrishna Order, died at Belur Math.
- 1877 CEScience · born
G. H. Hardy, the English mathematician celebrated for his work in number theory and analysis and for mentoring Srinivasa Ramanujan, was born in Cranleigh, Surrey.
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