July 4

Hermann Cohen, a founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism and a leading Jewish philosopher, was born to a cantor's family in Coswig, Anhalt.

Swami Vivekananda, who introduced Vedanta and Yoga to the West and founded the Ramakrishna Mission, died at Belur Math near Kolkata at the age of 39.

Hayim Nahman Bialik, a pioneer of modern Hebrew poetry later regarded as Israel's national poet, died in Vienna following surgery.

Swami Prabhavananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order who founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California and co-translated the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads into English, died in California.

Israeli forces flew some 4,000 km to Entebbe airport in Uganda and freed most of the hostages held after the hijacking of an Air France flight.