King Cyrus occupies Babylon, 539 BCE
Mizocz Ghetto massacre, 1942
Captain Dreyfus arrested, 1894
Death of R. Israel of Ruzhin, hasidic leader, 1850
Death of Joseph Sundel Salant, founder of Musar movement, 1865
Birth of Hartog Sommerhausen, pedagogue and writer, Niederwehren, 1781
Birth of Iwan Aksakow, leader of the Prussian anti-semites, 1823
Death of Israel Friedmann (Reb Srulzc), wonder rabbi, Sadagora, 1849
Death of Gottlieb Schmelkea, physician and poet, Interlaken, 1870
Death of R. David Oppenheim, author, Vienna, 1876
Death of Aaron Kornfeld, great Talmudist, Jenikau, 1881
Death of Harold Frederic, English writer, advocate of the Russian Jews, 1898
Death of Ferdinand Reichenheim, philanthropist, Berlin, 1902
Death of Heinrich Rickert, opposer of anti-semitism, 1902