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October 7

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  1. 2013 CEJewish · died

    Ovadia Yosef, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and a leading halakhic authority, died in Jerusalem at age 93.

  2. 1891 CEMesopotamian · born

    Ernst Weidner, a German Assyriologist known for his studies of Babylonian astronomy and ancient Near Eastern chronology, was born in Pasewalk on this day in 1891.

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