Erev Chanukah
Haggai prophesy, 520 BCE, Hag 2:20
Second Temple foundation finished, 520 BCE, Hag 2:18
Hanover and Brussels massacres, 1349
British capture Jerusalem from Turks, 1917
Prussian Cabinet Order forbidding Jews to take Christian first names issued, 1828
Death of R. David Conforte, 1704, Korei ha-Dorot
Death of Aaron b. Moses Fuld, German Orthodoxy leader, 1847
Death of Raphael Nathan Nata Rabinovicz, 1888, Dikdukei Soferim
Birth of Sir Julius Benedict, musician, Stuttgart, 1804
Birth of Samuel Adler, Reform rabbi, Worms, 1809
Birth of M. A. Alexander, Australian politician, 1820
Death of Saul Ascher, writer, Berlin, 1822
Birth of Adolf Lichen, chemist, university professor, Vienna, 1836
Death of Jeanette Wohl, Borne's friend, Paris, 1861