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November 20

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

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

  • R. Isser Zalman Meltzerd. 1953 CE

    Rosh Yeshiva of Etz Chaim, Jerusalem; author of Even HaAzel

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  1. 1984 CEIslamic · died

    Faiz Ahmad Faiz, among the most beloved Urdu poets of the twentieth century, died in Lahore in 1984.

  2. 1889 CEScience · born

    Edwin Hubble, whose observations showed that galaxies lie far beyond the Milky Way and that the universe is expanding, was born in Marshfield, Missouri.

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