In 2021, Passover begins at sundown on Saturday, March 27, and ends at nightfall on Sunday, April 4.Pesach or Passover is an annual weeklong festival commemorating the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt and slavery. The holiday, which begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, derives its name from the passing over of the homes of the Israelite slaves during the tenth plague. Family and friends gather together on the first and second nights of the holiday for the high point of the festival observance, the Seder. During the Seder, which means “order” in Hebrew, the experience of the Exodus is told in story, song, prayer, and the tasting of symbolic foods. Perhaps the most well-known of these foods is the matzoh (flat, crackerlike unleavened bread), which is a reminder of the haste with which the slaves — who had no time to wait for the bread to rise — left Egypt.
Every Year
1370s
1770s
1810s
1840s
- 1841: THE FIRST STEAM FIRE ENGINE WAS TESTED IN NEW YORK CITY
- BORN 1845: WILHELM ROENTGEN (PHYSICIST)
1850s
1860s
- 1860: A CORKSCREW WAS PATENTED BY M.L. BYRN OF NEW YORK CITY
- BORN 1863: HENRY ROYCE (AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER)
- 1866: ANDREW RANKIN RECEIVED A PATENT FOR THE URINAL
- BORN 1868: PATTY SMITH HILL (EDUCATOR)
1880s
1890s
1910s
- 1912: FIRST CHERRY TREES, A GIFT FROM JAPAN, PLANTED ON TIDAL BASIN IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
- BORN 1914: SNOOKY LANSON (SINGER)
- 1917: SEATTLE METROPOLITANS BECAME FIRST U.S. HOCKEY TEAM TO WIN THE STANLEY CUP
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
- 1955: STEVE MCQUEEN MADE HIS DEBUT ON A GOODYEAR PLAYHOUSE EPISODE CALLED “THE CHIVINGTON RAID”
- 1958: NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV BECAME PREMIER OF THE SOVIET UNION IN ADDITION TO FIRST SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
1960s
- BORN 1963: QUENTIN TARANTINO (ACTOR, DIRECTOR, & WRITER)
- 1964: 9.2-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE, PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, ALASKA
- DIED 1968: YURI GAGARIN (FIRST MAN IN SPACE)
1970s
- BORN 1970: MARIAH CAREY (SINGER)
- 1973: MARLON BRANDO TURNED DOWN AN OSCAR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE IN THE GODFATHER AS A GESTURE OF SUPPORT FOR THE INDIANS OCCUPYING THE WOUNDED KNEE RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
- BORN 1975: STACY “FERGIE” FERGUSON (SINGER)
- 1977: A DUTCH KLM 747 COLLIDED ON TAKEOFF WITH A PAN AMERICAN 747 AT TENERIFE IN THE CANARY ISLANDS, KILLING 582 PEOPLE
1980s
- 1980: MT. ST. HELENS ERUPTED AFTER 123-YEAR DORMANCY, STARTING A SERIES OF EVENTS THAT LED TO A CATACLYSMIC ERUPTION ON MAY 18.
- BORN 1988: BRENDA SONG (ACTRESS)
1990s
2000s
- DIED 2002: BILLY WILDER (OSCAR-WINNING FILMMAKER)
- DIED 2002: MILTON BERLE (COMEDIAN)
- DIED 2002: DUDLEY MOORE (ACTOR)
- 2004: X-43A SCRAMJET FLEW AT MACH 7
- DIED 2004: EDWARD J. PISZEK (ONCE MADE TOO MANY CRAB CAKES FOR A LOCAL BAR AND THREW THE EXTRAS IN A FREEZER, AN ACCIDENT THAT LED TO A FROZEN SEAFOOD EMPIRE, MRS. PAUL’S KITCHENS)
2010s
- 2010: 25-POUND 2-OUNCE BURBOT CAUGHT IN LAKE DIEFENBAKER, SASKATCHEWAN
- 2017: 50-POUND CARP CAUGHT IN MACARTHUR PARK LAKE IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
- 2019: ALMOST 800 STUDENTS OF THE PIKE COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN ZEBULON, GEORGIA, WISHED JANITOR HAZE MABRY A HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY
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