On this day in history
March 31
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YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on March 31 this year.
- R. Yosef Karo (Beit Yosef / Shulchan Aruch)d. 1575 CE
Author of the Beit Yosef and Shulchan Aruch, the central code of Jewish law
Trace this life → - R. Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch)d. 1866 CE
Third Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe; authored the responsa Tzemach Tzedek
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- 1959 CEBuddhist
The 14th Dalai Lama crossed into India on this day in 1959, beginning an exile during which Tibetan Buddhist teaching spread across the wider world.
- 1596 CEScience · born
French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who developed analytic geometry linking algebra and geometry, was born at La Haye in the Touraine region of France.
Trace this life → - 1727 CEScience · died
English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton, who set out the laws of motion and universal gravitation, died at Kensington near London and was later given a state funeral.
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