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Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist, born today in 1822; and a surprising connection with Nathan Straus of Macy's on June 12
Marlene Dietrich, actress, born today in 1901
Regina Jonas became the first woman, ever, to obtain smichah, formal ordination as a Rabbi - in Offenbach am Main, under the leadership of Rabbi Leo Baeck, but under the personal signature of Rabbi Max Dienemann, today in 1935. She would be among those who died in Auschwitz (see also June 3). Worth looking at January 12 as well, and then ask the obvious question.
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani political leader, daughter of the assassinated President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, assassinated in Rawalpindi, today in 2007. See also the various Ghandhi assassinations (the Mahatma wasn't the same family as Indira or Rajiv, but leave that aside), and then wonder if there isn't some sort of a lesson to be learned, across the sub-continent. I do hope Imran Khan never makes it to the Presidency.[update: this page was published on 17th July 2018; just ten days later he did, or ot least to the Prime Ministership, which is frankly just as dangerous. May he live to achieve all that he has spent the last twenty years promising, and never believing for a minute that he would be given so much as an opportunity. Read his book, "Pakistan, A Personal History". If it can be done, it provides a model for the Third World such as only Uruguay and especially Botswana have yet demonstrated workable.]
[update: April 2024: no, it's simply too depressing. You can surf this sad, sad story for yourself]
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