Lag B'Omer
33rd day of the Omer
Brussels massacre, 1370
Massacre of the Jews of Lemberg, instigated by Jesuits, 1665
Death of Shimeon ben Yochai, Zohar
Death of R. Elijah Levensohn (Kretinger), 1888
Birth of Hermann Schiff, German writer, 1801
Birth of Lazarus Geiger, philologist, Frankfurt, 1829
Death of Samuel Chajim Lolli, poet and grammarian, Gorice, 1843
Death of Solomon Sachs, translator and commentator of Jeremiah, 1850