Chanukah 1
Mishkan completed
Cain kills Abel
Tabernacle completed by Moses
First pagan sacrifice on Temple, 168 BCE
Death of R. Solomon Zalman, father of Gaon of Vilna, talmudist, 1758
Order of expulsion from Spain 1492 officially voided, 1968
Death of R. Moses Israel of Rhodes, 1781, Moshe Yedaber
Death of Jacob Israel of Kremenets Russia, 1799, Shevet me-Yisrael
Death of R. Abraham b. Elijah (Gaon) of Vilna, 1808, Midrash Aggadat Bereishit
Death of Baruch b. Jonah Zeitelis (Jeiteles), 1813, Prague, Ammudei ha-Shahar
Death of R. Jacob Ettlinger, 1871, Altona, Bikkurei Ya'akov
Death of R. Hayyim Hezekiah Medini, 1904, Sedeh Hemed
Birth of Steven Spielberg, director, 1946
Death of R. N. Rabbinowitz, critic of Talmudic texts, Kiew, 1888
Death of Heinrich Deutsch, Hungarian Hebrew writer, Budapest, 1889