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October 20

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YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on October 20 this year.

  • Rosh (Asher ben Yechiel)d. 1327 CE

    Talmudist bridging Ashkenaz and Sefarad; father of the Tur's author

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  1. 1966 CEJewish

    Hebrew novelist Shmuel Yosef Agnon was selected to share the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Nobel awarded to a Hebrew writer.

  2. 1891 CEScience · born

    Physicist James Chadwick, born 20 October 1891 in Cheshire, discovered the neutron in 1932, for which he received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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