June 20

Samson Raphael Hirsch, the German rabbi who articulated the Torah im Derech Eretz approach associated with modern Orthodoxy, was born in Hamburg.

Swami Vivekananda boarded the steamer Golconda at Calcutta on this day in 1899, setting out on his second journey to the West.

The new Acropolis Museum, purpose-built to house the sculptures of the Athenian Acropolis, opened to the public in Athens.

The United States granted Samuel Morse patent number 1,647 for his electromagnetic telegraph, the signaling system that would soon carry messages across wires as coded pulses.