17th day of the Omer
Solomon starts Temple, 2 Chron 3:2
Speyer massacre, first of Crusdaes, 1096
Belsen camp liberated, 1945
Death of R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, 1788, Peri ha-Arez
Death of R. Baruch b. Samuel of Mayence, 1221, Sefer ha-Hakhmah
Death of R. Kalman of Worms, head of Yeshiva of Lemberg, 1560
Death of Isaac Abrabanel, 1573
Death of Abraham Baer Gottlober (Abag), poet, Bialystock, 1899
Abraham Lopez Pereira and Isaac da Fonseca were burned, 1682
Birth of Johann Jacoby, German politician, Koenigsberg, 1805
Birth of Eugene Manuel, poet and pedagogue, Paris, 1823
Birth of Sabbato Morais, leader of American Orthodoxy, Leghorn, 1823
Birth of Abraham Berliner, Jewish historian, Obersitzko, 1832
Death of Alois Jeiteles, physician and writer, Brunn, 1858
Death of Alexander von Humboldt, author, friend of the Jews, 1859
Death of Joseph Wolff, English missionary, convert, 1862
Death of Moses Eisman, Hebrew author, 1893
Death of Baron Moritz von Cohn, banker of Emperor William, 1900