On this day in history
March 8
JewishChristianEgyptianScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on March 8 this year.
- R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeldd. 1932 CE
Leader of the Eda HaCharedis in Jerusalem's Old Yishuv
- 1948 CEJewish · born
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, a philosopher and author who served as Britain's Chief Rabbi, was born in London.
- 1550 CEChristian · died
John of God, who devoted his life to nursing the poor and sick and founded the Brothers Hospitallers, died in Granada.
- 1960 CEEgyptian
UNESCO launched its international appeal to rescue the temples of Nubia, among them Abu Simbel and Philae, from the rising Nile.
- 1879 CEScience · born
German chemist Otto Hahn, a pioneer of radiochemistry whose experiments led to the identification of nuclear fission, was born in Frankfurt am Main.
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