On this day in history
March 12
ChristianIslamicScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on March 12 this year.
- R. Yitzchak Meir Alter (Chidushei HaRim, first Gerrer Rebbe)d. 1866 CE
Founder of the Ger dynasty; author of Chidushei HaRim
- 604 CEChristian · died
Gregory I, a reforming pope and prolific writer often called the founder of the medieval papacy, died in Rome.
- 1964 CEIslamic · died
Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad, the self-taught Egyptian writer and critic known for his Abqariyyat biographical series, died in Cairo.
- 1824 CEScience · born
German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff, known for his circuit laws and, with Robert Bunsen, for founding spectral analysis, was born in Königsberg, East Prussia.
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