This Day In History, 1995: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

Ten years ago today, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was fatally shot after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel. Rabin later died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

His yahrzeit (Hebrew calendar anniversary of his death) is 12 Heshvan, which this year begins the night of Sunday November 13.

I still remember gnomi and I finishing off shabbat that evening, turning on the TV in our old apartment, and hearing the news about his assassination. jik_blog and his wife were in Israel at the time, I believe; as Nomi recalls hearing from them by email about what it was like in Israel that tragic day.

(For more information, see This Day in History. Today's also the 26th anniversary of the Iranian students storming the U.S. embassy in 1979.)

Tomorrow in History, 1955: Time Travel Invented

sdelmonte reminds us that tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the day Doc Brown invented time travel:

On November 5, 1955, Dr. Emmett L. Brown, while hanging a clock in his bathroom, slipped on wet porcelain and whacked his head. When he came to, he came up with the flux capacitor, the device that makes time travel possible.

For more information, go see Back to the Future. No, really. Go see it.

Tomorrow in History, 1605: Gunpowder Plot

Since tomorrow is shabbat, I won't be able to post anything until the evening. And a 400th anniversary is a major one...

Remember, remember
The fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason, and plot --
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Tomorrow, of course, being Guy Fawkes Day and Bonfire Night in the UK.