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First Kibbutz Degania started, 1909

Start of Israeli war of independence, 1947

Pogroms in Lvov, 1918

Augsburg Germany massacre, 1349

Death of Luis de Carabjal, author, martyr, 1596

Death of R. Isaac Korite, 1804, Ma'aseh Rokem

Death of R. Solomon Baer, 1868, Divrei Shelomoh

Death of R. Joseph Josel Horowitz, Nowardok (Novogrudok) Yeshivah, 1920

Death of Abraham Adelson, Hovevei Zion movement, 1922

Birth of Ed. Bendemann, painter, convert, Berlin, 1811

Birth of R. Abraham Treuenfels, author, 1818

Birth of Cesare Parenzo, Italian senator, Rovigo, 1842

Gaston Cremieux shot in Marsailles as a Communist, 1871

Death of Sebastian Brunner, clerical anti-semite, Vienna, 1893

Death of R. Isaac Costa, Leghorn, 1897