On this day in history
December 6
HinduBuddhistScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on December 6 this year.
- Raavad (Abraham ben David of Posquières)d. 1198 CE
Talmudist known for critical glosses on the Mishneh Torah
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- 1823 CEHindu · born
Friedrich Max Müller, the philologist who directed the fifty-volume Sacred Books of the East and translated Vedic and Upaniṣadic texts, was born in Dessau.
- 1956 CEBuddhist · died
B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian jurist who weeks earlier embraced Buddhism and launched its Navayana revival among many followers, died on this day in 1956.
- 1877 CEScience
Thomas Edison first demonstrated the phonograph at his Menlo Park laboratory, recording and playing back the verse 'Mary Had a Little Lamb', the first reproduction of recorded sound.
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