April 22

Alexander Kohut, compiler of the Arukh ha-Shalem Talmudic dictionary and a founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary, was born in Hungary.

The Yiddish daily Forverts, The Forward, published its first issue in New York, becoming a leading voice of Jewish immigrant life.

Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti, the jurist and prolific author of the late Songhai era whose library was renowned across the Sahara, died on this day in 1627.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who directed the Los Alamos laboratory and later engaged in debates over science and public policy, was born in New York City in 1904.