25th day of the Omer
Tabernacle destroyed at Shiloh
Door of ark closed
Ark of Covenant captured by Philistines
Death of Eli and his sons, 891 BCE
End of Warsaw Ghetto, in flames, 1943
Sumtuary Laws at Casale, limit Jewish life, 1590
Death of Isaac Alfasi (RIF), first Sefer Halachot, 1103
Death of R. Zevi Hirsch b. Abraham Katz of Lemberg, 1664
Death of R. Hillel Lichtenstein, orthodox leader, 1891, Kolomea
Death of Shalom Rabinowitz, humorist, Shalom Aleichem, 1916
Death of Isaac Katzenelson, poet, 1944
Death of R. Meir Margalioth, Talmudic author, Ostrog, 1790
Death of Joseph Baron von Soimenfels, convert, humanitarian statesman, Vienna, 1817
Birth of R. Marcus Jastrow, author, Rogasen, 1829
Birth of Theodor Herzl, leader of the Zionistic movement, author, Budapest, 1860, Jewish State
Death of R. Abraham E. Piunpiansky, Riga, 1893