Shavuot begins at sundown on this day. Called the Feast of the Weeks in the Jewish calendar, Shavuot is a two-day holiday that was originally a harvest festival. It’s also a thanksgiving day to commemorate the Giving of the Law, the Torah, recalling when Moses and the Israelites received the Ten Commandments from God at Mount Sinai. Shavuot, which means weeks, always begins exactly seven weeks after Passover. Shavuot is known also as Yom Habikkurim, or “The Day of the First Fruits,” because Israel’s farmers would bring a bundle from their first harvest to the temple in Jerusalem as a token of thanksgiving to God. Spring harvests in Israel began with the barley crop at Passover. Each farmer would set aside the first of each type of fruit to ripen, tie it in ribbon, and all would be brought to the city, accompanied by a joyful, musical celebration.
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Thursday, June 10, 2027
Born
- Gustave Courbet (painter) –
- David Lubin (agriculturist, born in Kłodawa, Poland) –
- Hattie McDaniel (actress; the first African American to win an Academy Award) –
- Judy Garland (actress & singer) –
- Eugene Parker (American astrophysicist; proposed the idea of solar wind in 1958 ) –
- F. Lee Bailey (attorney) –
- Jim Shea (Olympic gold medalist, Men’s Skeleton) –
- Pokey Reese (baseball player) –
- Leelee Sobieski (actress) –
- Tara Lipinski (figure skater) –
- Princess Madeleine of Sweden –
Died
- Sir Robert Laird Borden (Canadian prime minister) –
- Spencer Tracy (actor) –
- Louis L'Amour (author) –
- John Gotti (gangster) –
- Ray Charles (singer) –
- John A. Eddy (solar astronomer, coined the term Maunder Minimum) –
- Gordie Howe (hockey player) –
Events
- Bridget Bishop was the first person to be hanged at the Salem Witch trials –
- Ben Franklin’s kite and key experiment proved lightning is electricity –
- Canada Constitution Act is passed by British Parliament, creating Upper and Lower Canada –
- Phoenix steamboat first in U.S. to sail on open sea –
- First boat race between Oxford and Cambridge –
- The United States Naval Academy graduated its first students –
- U.S. Marines landed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba –
- Alcoholics Anonymous founded –
- The Deep premiered –
- United States War Dogs Memorial was dedicated, Holmdel, New Jersey –
Weather
- Yakutat, Alaska, reached 87 degrees F, a record for that town –