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May 3

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on May 3 this year.

  • R. Meir of Lublin (the Maharam Lublin)d. 1616 CE

    Polish posek; authored Meir Einei Chachamim, a commentary on the Talmud

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  1. 1481 CEIslamic · died

    Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan who took Constantinople in 1453, died near Maltepe while on campaign.

  2. 1860 CEScience · born

    Vito Volterra was born in Ancona, then part of the Papal States. A mathematician, he helped found functional analysis and modeled the rise and fall of interacting animal populations.

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