On this day in history
February 13
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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on February 13 this year.
- R. David HaLevi Segal (the Taz)d. 1667 CE
Author of the Turei Zahav (Taz) on the Shulchan Aruch
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- 1875 CEJewish · died
Zecharias Frankel, founder of the positive-historical school of Judaism and head of the Breslau seminary, died in Breslau.
- 1945 CEJewish · died
Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and organizer of Youth Aliyah, died at age 84 in the Jerusalem hospital she had helped to build.
- 1996 CEBuddhist · died
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a Kagyü and Nyingma master renowned as a teacher of Dzogchen, died at his hermitage near Kathmandu.
- 1910 CEScience · born
William Shockley, the American physicist who co-invented the transistor and later helped seed the semiconductor industry in California, was born in London to American parents.
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