On this day in history
July 8
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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on July 8 this year.
- R. Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak)d. 1570 CE
Safed kabbalist, author of Pardes Rimonim and Tomer Devorah
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- 1741 CEChristian
Jonathan Edwards delivered his sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' at Enfield, a moment often tied to the First Great Awakening.
- 1914 CEBuddhist · born
Piyadassi Maha Thera, a Sri Lankan Theravada monk who taught and wrote on the Dhamma in both Sinhala and English, was born in Colombo.
- 1979 CEScience · died
Robert Burns Woodward, considered a founder of modern organic synthesis for building complex natural molecules in the laboratory, died on 8 July 1979; he won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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