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November 29

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on November 29 this year.

  • R. Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritchd. 1772 CE

    Successor to the Baal Shem Tov who spread Hasidism

  1. 1898 CEChristian · born

    C. S. Lewis, the literary scholar and Christian apologist, was born in Belfast.

  2. 1803 CEScience · born

    Christian Doppler, the Austrian physicist who described how relative motion shifts the observed frequency of waves—the Doppler effect—was born in Salzburg.

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