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September 20

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 20 this year.

  • R. Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik (the Brisker Rav)d. 1959 CE

    Rosh yeshiva of Brisk in Jerusalem

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  1. 1918 CEChristian

    According to his friary's records, the Capuchin friar Padre Pio was first documented bearing the wounds he would carry until his death.

  2. 1933 CEHindu · died

    Annie Besant, Theosophical Society president and founder of the Central Hindu College at Varanasi, died on this day in 1933 in Adyar.

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