Epoch of the Hebrew calendar begins (3761 BC), and Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity (1950). Born on this day: Vladimir Putin, Niels Bohr and Desmond Tutu. Died: Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Politkovskaya and Mario Molina.
30 events, 72 births and 67 deaths on this date.
This marks the starting point of Anno Mundi, the year count that dates events from the world's creation according to traditional Jewish chronology. Today's Hebrew calendar still reckons its years from this point and fixes the dates of Jewish holidays.
photo © 2004 by Tomasz Sienicki [user: tsca , mail: tomasz.sienicki at gmail.com] · CC BY 2.5Mother Teresa set up the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, a religious order aimed at helping the destitute in the city's slums. It grew into a worldwide network of nuns running homes for the dying, soup kitchens, and schools.
Ford's Highland Park plant began building cars on a moving assembly line, so each worker stayed in one place while the chassis came to them. The method cut assembly time sharply and spread across industry worldwide.
Cornell opened in Ithaca, New York, with 412 students, more than any American university had at that point. Co-founded by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, it has been co-educational and nonsectarian since its start.
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Uppsala University opens its doors in Sweden, having received papal approval earlier that same year. It remains the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries, and its traditions, such as the white student cap, started there.
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The Netherlands' national airline was set up in 1919 and still flies under its original name, making it the oldest carrier in the world to do so. It began as a venture to link the Dutch homeland with its colonies in the East Indies.
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Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician and former KGB intelligence officer who has been Russia's president since 2012, and is widely described as its de facto leader since 1999. He first became president in 2000 and has held the office across several terms, with a spell as prime minister in between.
Пресс-служба Президента России · CC BY 4.0
Danish theoretical physicist who showed electrons move in fixed orbits and jump between energy levels, work that earned him the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. He also founded the Copenhagen institute that bears his name and helped shape quantum theory.
The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal , which is the Swedish company used by the Nobel Foundation for most photos of its book series Les Prix Nobel . · Public domain
Desmond Tutu became the first Black African Archbishop of Cape Town and a leading voice against apartheid, championing non-violent protest. He later chaired South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
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Poe was an American writer remembered for his macabre tales and poems such as The Raven. He is also considered a pioneer of detective fiction and one of the first Americans to live entirely by writing.
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Russian investigative journalist who wrote critically about the Second Chechen War and faced intimidation for years. She was found murdered in the lift of her Moscow apartment block, and in 2014 five men were jailed for the killing, though who ordered it remains unclear.
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Mexican chemist whose work showed that chlorofluorocarbon gases were thinning the ozone layer, earning him a share of the 1995 chemistry prize from Sweden. He became the first Mexican-born researcher to win that prize and later advised Mexico's president on climate policy.
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