37th day of the Omer
First real Shabbat in Sinai, Exod 16:27
Edict of Benedict XIII, restricted Jewish life, 1415
Start of Portuguese Inquisition, 1536
Death of R. Zevi of Vilna, 1733, Bet Lehem Yehudah
Death of R. Aaron b. Solomon Amarillo, 1772, Penei Aharon
Death of R. Judah Leib, 1826, Likkutei Maharil
Birth of Jacques Fromental Halevy, composer, 1799
Birth of Solomon Munk, Orientalist, member of Academy of France, Glogau, 1803
Birth of Richard Wagner, composer and anti-semite, 1813
Birth of Joseph Neuwirth, Austrian politician and political economist, Triesch, 1839
Birth of Adolf Baginsky, physician, university professor, Berlin, 1843
Death of David Frankel, editor of Sulamith, Dessan, 1865
Death of Friedrich Karl Stahl, alienist, convert, Karthaus-Prill, 1873
Death of Martin Eduard von Simson, President of German Reichstag, convert, 1899