On this day in history

January 27

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on January 27 this year.

Ran (Nissim of Gerona)d. 1376 CE
Talmudist; author of a key commentary on the Rif
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1945 CEJewish
Soviet forces reached the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland; the day is now observed worldwide as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1880 CEScience
Thomas Edison received U.S. Patent 223,898 for an electric lamp using a high-resistance carbon filament, a design that helped make practical, long-lasting incandescent lighting possible.
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