Ta'anit Esther
Day of Nicanor, Judah Maccabee extracts vengence
Haman's sons hanged
Minsk ghetto massacre, 1942
Death of R. Judah b. Samuel he-Hasid of Regensburg, 1217, Sefer Hasidim
Death of R. Moses Feinstein, 1986, Igrot Moshe
Birth of Rachel Felix, French actress, 1820
Birth of Herman Makower, communal leader, 1830
Birth of Guido Adler, musical author, 1860
Death of Joseph Almanzi, bibliophile and Hebrew poet, Triest, 1860
Death of Shalom Cohen, Hebrew writer, Hamburg, 1845, Adar I
Death of M. A. Levy, Jewish archeologist, Breslau, 1872, Adar I
Death of Alfred Edersheim, convert, church historian, London, 1889, Adar II