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September 26

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Observed on September 26, 2026
  • SukkotJewish

    Sukkot, the festival of booths, when many eat and dwell in a sukkah for seven days.

  1. 1328 CEIslamic · died

    Ibn Taymiyya, a prolific Damascene jurist and theologian of the Ḥanbalī school, died on this day in 1328.

  2. 1895 CEHindu · died

    Lahiri Mahasaya, the householder yogi who taught Kriya Yoga to lay disciples in Varanasi, died on this day in 1895.

  3. 1849 CEScience · born

    The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, whose studies of digestion and conditioned reflexes shaped modern psychology, was born in Ryazan.

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