May 30
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on May 30 this year.
- R. Chaim of Volozhind. 1821 CE
Leading student of the Vilna Gaon; founder of the Volozhin yeshiva
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- 1416 CEChristian · died
Jerome of Prague, a scholar and follower of Jan Hus, was burned at the stake as a heretic by the Council of Constance.
- 1431 CEChristian · died
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy at Rouen; a later church tribunal overturned the verdict and she was eventually canonized.
- 1902 CEMesopotamian · born
Seton Lloyd, the English archaeologist who co-directed the excavation of Eridu and surveyed early Mesopotamia, was born in Birmingham.
- 1903 CEHindu · born
The yogi and writer Gopi Krishna, who popularized the concept of kundalini for Western readers, was born in a village near Srinagar, Kashmir.
- 1953 CEScience · published
Nature published Watson and Crick's second paper, 'Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid,' describing how complementary base pairing lets each DNA strand serve as a template for copying.
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