On this day in history
October 7
JewishMesopotamianScience
- 2013 CEJewish · died
Ovadia Yosef, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and a leading halakhic authority, died in Jerusalem at age 93.
- 1891 CEMesopotamian · born
Ernst Weidner, a German Assyriologist known for his studies of Babylonian astronomy and ancient Near Eastern chronology, was born in Pasewalk on this day in 1891.
- 1885 CEScience · born
Physicist Niels Bohr, born 7 October 1885 in Copenhagen, proposed the quantized model of the atom in 1913 and received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Trace this life → - 1959 CEScience
On 7 October 1959 the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photographs of the far side of the Moon, revealing a hemisphere never before seen from Earth.