Purim Mo'ed Katan, celebrated by Shiraz Persians, escaped forced conversion
Austria under Joseph II grants Jews rights, 1781
Odessa Russia pogrom, 1905
Vilna ghetto liquidated, 1941
Death of R. Samuel b. Moses di Medina (Rashdam), 1589, Piskei Rashdam
Death of R. Samuel di Medici, Talmudic author, Salonica, 1589
Death of Joseph Pardo, rabbi and author, Amsterdam, 1619
Birth of R. Benedict Levi, Gressen, 1806
Birth of Sarah Bernhardt, the great French tragedienne, 1846
Death of Czar Alexander III, persecutor of the Jews, 1894