On this day in history
February 12
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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on February 12 this year.
- R. Yisrael Salanter (Lipkin)d. 1883 CE
Founder of the Mussar movement
- 1834 CEChristian · died
Friedrich Schleiermacher, the German theologian often called the founder of modern Protestant theology, died in Berlin.
- 1809 CEScience · born
Charles Darwin, the English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection reshaped the life sciences, was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury.
Trace this life → - 2001 CEScience · published
International teams announced a first working draft of the human genome, covering most of the sequence and estimating far fewer genes than expected, with papers following in Nature and Science.