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February 16

ChristianEgyptian
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on February 16 this year.

  • R. Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the Alter of Slabodka)d. 1927 CE

    The Alter of Slabodka; founder of Slabodka yeshiva

  1. 1497 CEChristian · born

    Philipp Melanchthon, the humanist scholar who systematized Reformation theology, was born in Bretten.

  2. 1879 CEEgyptian · died

    Émile Prisse d'Avennes, who spent years recording and publishing Egypt's monuments, papyri and art, died on this day in 1879.

  3. 1923 CEEgyptian · discovered

    Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings on this day in 1923.

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