Pope Sixtus IV approves Spanish Inquisition, 1478
Minsk ghetto massacre, 1942
"Hattisheriff" of Gulhane issued; improvement of the position of the Jews in Turkey, 1839
Death of R. Raphael Yekutiel Zalman (Raphael Kohen) of Altona-Hamburg, 1803, Torat Yekutiel
Death of R. Meir Manachem Bouk, 1842, Hukkat ha-Pesah
Birth of Julius Stettenheim, famous humorist, Hamburg, 1831
Death of Meyer Roest, lithographer, Amsterdam, 1889
Death of George Levin, medical professor, Berlin, 1896