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January 23

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on January 23 this year.

  • R. Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter (Sfas Emes of Ger)d. 1905 CE

    Second Gerrer Rebbe, author of Sfas Emes

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  1. 1691 CEChristian · died

    George Fox, the itinerant preacher who founded the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), died in London.

  2. 1862 CEScience · born

    David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of his era whose 1900 list of open problems guided a century of research, was born in Königsberg.

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