June 30
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on June 30 this year.
- R. Aryeh Leib Ginzburg (the Shaagat Aryeh)d. 1785 CE
Lithuanian Talmudist and rabbi of Metz; author of Shaagat Aryeh
- R. Chaim ibn Attar (Ohr HaChaim)d. 1743 CE
Author of the Ohr HaChaim Torah commentary; kabbalist
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- 1883 CEEgyptian · born
The English Egyptologist and philologist Battiscombe Gunn, translator of the Teaching of Ptahhotep and later Oxford professor, was born.
- 1916 CEEgyptian · died
The French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero died in Paris after being taken ill during a session of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
- 1943 CEBuddhist · born
Tenzin Palmo, born Diane Perry, among the first Western women fully ordained in Tibetan Buddhism, was born in Hertfordshire, England.
- 1992 CEBuddhist
The 14th Dalai Lama issued his formal seal of recognition confirming Ogyen Trinley Dorje as the 17th Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu school.
- 1905 CEScience · published
The journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, which set out his special theory of relativity.
Trace this life → - 1908 CEScience
A massive airburst, attributed to an incoming asteroid or comet fragment, flattened hundreds of square miles of forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia.