On this day in history
November 27
JewishGraeco-RomanScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on November 27 this year.
- R. Yosef Yozel Horowitz (the Alter of Novardok)d. 1919 CE
The Alter of Novardok; founder of Novardok yeshivas
- 1874 CEJewish · born
Chaim Weizmann, the biochemist who pioneered an industrial fermentation process and later became the first president of Israel, was born in Motal.
- 8 BCEGraeco-Roman · died
Horace, the lyric voice of the Odes and author of the Ars Poetica that shaped later poetic theory, died at Rome only weeks after his patron Maecenas.
- 1895 CEScience
At a club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signed the will directing most of his fortune toward annual prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
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