Yom Mt. Gerizim, victory over Samaratins, 331 BCE, ancient festival
Council of Claremont, Pope Urban II calls for Crusades, 1095
Finland grants Jews rights, 1917
Death of R. Moses of Lublin, 1668, Mahadura Batra
Death of R. Benjamin Rapoport of Berezhany of Galicia, 1770, Gevulot Binyamin
Death of R. Jacob Meir Padua of Brisk, 1854, Mekor Hayyim
Death of Leopold Stein, poet, Frankfurt, 1882
Death of Isaac Levovich Ashkenazi, painter, 1902
Birth of Leon Gordon, Hebrew poet, Wilna, 1837
Death of Paul de Lagarde, learned Orientalist and anti-semite, Gottingen, 1891
Death of Joseph Cohen, French journalist and author, Paris, 1899