Polannoe massacre, 1648
First shipload of Russian immigrants reaches US, 1881
Sosnowiec Poland ghetto liquidated, 1943
Death of Joshua Mordecai Lifshits, Father of modern Yiddishism, 1878
Birth of R. Salomon Formstecher, Offenbach, 1808
Death of Armand S. Levy, mathematician, Paris, 1841
Death of Prince Urusow, champion of the Russian Jews, 1900