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September 29

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

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

  • R. Nachman of Breslovd. 1810 CE

    Founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement; buried in Uman

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  1. 2013 CEBuddhist · died

    S. N. Goenka, the teacher who built a worldwide network of donation-based vipassanā meditation courses, died in Mumbai at age 90.

  2. 1901 CEScience · born

    The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who advanced quantum statistics and built the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, was born in Rome.

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