APRIL 22/NISSAN 24

2448 (1312 BCE):

According to tradition, the Jews of the Exodus paused at Marah to observe their first Shabbat in the desert after crossing the Red Sea (Exodus 15:23).

1876:

Birthday of Robert Bárány (Jewish father), Austro-Hungarian otologist who received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.

1884:

Birthday of Otto Rank, a protégé of Sigmund Freud, who eventually broke from psychanalytic orthodoxy.

1897:

The first issue of the Jewish Daily Forward, a daily Yiddish newspaper, was published in New York City.

1904:

Birthday of Robert Oppenheimer, American theoretical physicist and professor who along with Enricio Fermi has been referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project. After the war ended, Oppenheimer lobbied to avert a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.