Tzom Tammuz
Moses breaks first tablets, Exod 32:19
Romans breach Jerusalem, Titus takes other cities
End of 1st Temple services
King Menashe idol in Temple, 2Kings 21:7
Apostomos burns Torah
Jerusalem massacres by Godfrey kills 30,000, 1099
Toledo massacre, 1391
American Independence Day, July 4, 1776
Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary organized, 1901
Bialystok massacre, 1941
Liquidation of Kovno ghetto, 1944
Purim of Jonathan b. Jacob of Fulda, Purim Sheli
Abraham Athias, burned at Cordova, 1667
Death of R. Meir b. Isaac, tosafist, 1312
Death of R. Judah b. Asher (son of Rosh), 1349, Iggeret ha-Tokahah
Birth of Aaron Worms, Talmudic author, 1754
Birth of Gustav Freytag, German poet, writer of Jewish characters, 1816
Birth of Joseph Joachim, famous musician, 1831
Birth of Otto Stobbe, author of a history of the Jews in Germany, 1831
Birth of Leo Lewanda, Russian Jewish writer, 1835
Death of Louis Marcus, archaeologist, Paris, 1843
Death of Eliaa H. Lindo, Jewish historian, London, 1865