On this day in history
March 11
Graeco-RomanEgyptianBuddhistScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on March 11 this year.
- R. Yechiel Michel Epstein (Aruch HaShulchan)d. 1908 CE
Rabbi in Novardok; authored the Aruch HaShulchan
- 222 CEGraeco-Roman · died
The teenage emperor Elagabalus was killed by the Praetorian Guard in Rome, ending a short and turbulent reign in the Severan dynasty.
- 1971 CEEgyptian · died
Walter Bryan Emery, excavator of Egypt's earliest dynasties and of Saqqara, died in Cairo after a stroke.
- 2006 CEBuddhist · died
Herbert V. Guenther, a German-born scholar who produced some of the earliest English translations of Vajrayana and Dzogchen texts, died on this day in 2006.
- 1955 CEScience · died
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, whose 1928 observation of a mould led to the antibiotic penicillin, died in London.
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