May 12
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on May 12 this year.
- R. Yaakov Lorberbaum of Lissa (Nesivos HaMishpat)d. 1832 CE
Rabbi of Lissa; authored Nesivos HaMishpat and Chavas Daas
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- 113 CEGraeco-Roman · founded
Trajan's Column, its spiral relief commemorating the emperor's victories in the Dacian Wars, was dedicated in Trajan's Forum at Rome.
- 1843 CEBuddhist · born
Thomas William Rhys Davids, the scholar who founded the Pali Text Society in 1881 to edit and translate the Pali canon, was born on this day in 1843.
- 1820 CEScience · born
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy. She founded modern nursing and used careful statistics and charts to show how better hygiene could reduce deaths, reshaping hospital care.
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Dorothy Hodgkin was born in Cairo. A chemist, she advanced X-ray crystallography to map the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin, and received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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