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January 20

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YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on January 20 this year.

  • R. Zusha (Meshulam Zusha) of Anipolid. 1800 CE

    Early Hasidic master and disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch

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  • R. Menachem Mendel Krochmal (Tzemach Tzedek of Nikolsburg)d. 1661 CE

    Moravian halakhist; author of the responsa Tzemach Tzedek

  1. 1995 CEIslamic · died

    Mehdi Bazargan, an Iranian academic and religious intellectual who wrote on faith and modern science, died in Zurich.

  2. 1775 CEScience · born

    André-Marie Ampère, who founded the study of electrodynamics and is honored in the ampere, the unit of electric current, was born in Lyon.

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