February 24
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on February 24 this year.
- Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses)d. 1273 BCE
Leader of the Exodus and receiver of the Torah at Sinai — By tradition also the date of his birth.
- R. Ephraim of Luntshitz (Kli Yakar)d. 1619 CE
Torah commentator and preacher; rabbi of Prague, author of Kli Yakar
Trace this life →
- 1912 CEJewish · founded
At a meeting in New York, Henrietta Szold and fellow Zionist women established the chapter that became Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
- 303 CEGraeco-Roman
Diocletian's first edict against Christians was published at Nicomedia, ordering churches dismantled and scriptures surrendered across the empire.
- 1897 CEMesopotamian · born
Henri Frankfort, the Dutch scholar whose excavations and studies illuminated the art and religion of the ancient Near East, was born in Amsterdam.
- 1931 CEBuddhist · born
Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, the Soto Zen priest who founded the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the White Plum lineage, was born in Japan.
- 1582 CEScience
Pope Gregory XIII issued the bull Inter gravissimas, reforming the Julian calendar to halt its drift against the solar year and establishing the calendar in worldwide civil use today.