Beginning of three-day fast in Israel if no rain fell by Cheshvan 17
Flood begins, Gen 7:11
King Saul's seven sons removed from gallows
Narol Podolia massacre, 1648, fast day
Balfour Declaration issued, 1917
Death of R. Sabato Morais, 1897, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Death of R. Simon Wolf Auerbach, Prague, 1631
Birth of Dorothea Schiegel, Moses Mendelssohn's daughter, Berlin, 1763
Birth of Gotthold Salomon, preacher, 1784
Death of Lazarus Gumpel, philanthropist (Heine's Gumpelino), Hamburg, 1843
Death of Gustav Heine, proprietor of a periodical, Heinrich Heine's brother, Vienna, 1886
Death of Sir Albert Saasoon, East Indian nabob, London, 1896