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July 13

EgyptianHindu
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on July 13 this year.

  • R. Yosef Shalom Elyashivd. 2012 CE

    Leading posek and halachic authority in Jerusalem

  1. 1863 CEEgyptian · born

    Margaret Alice Murray, Egyptologist and Britain's first woman archaeology lecturer, was born in Calcutta.

  2. 1966 CEHindu · founded

    A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada incorporated the International Society for Krishna Consciousness under New York's Religious Corporation Law, formalizing the Gaudiya Vaishnava movement in the West.

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