On this day in history
September 6
JewishGraeco-RomanScience
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 6 this year.
- The Chofetz Chaim (R. Yisrael Meir Kagan)d. 1933 CE
Authored the Chofetz Chaim and the Mishnah Berurah
Trace this life → - R. Yechezkel Abramskyd. 1976 CE
Chief Dayan; author of Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta
Trace this life →
- 1729 CEJewish · born
Moses Mendelssohn, the Dessau-born philosopher whose writings helped shape the Haskalah, was born on this day in 1729.
- 1956 CEGraeco-Roman · died
Michael Ventris, who four years earlier had shown the Linear B script to record an early form of Greek, died in a road accident in Hertfordshire at thirty-four.
- 1522 CEScience
The ship Victoria reached Spain under Juan Sebastian Elcano, completing the first voyage around the world begun by Ferdinand Magellan and offering direct proof of the Earth's navigable roundness.