Rosh Chodesh Tevet
Chanukah: 7th Day
Plague of hail
Death of Abraham, 1638 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar captures King Jehoiachin and 10,000 Jews, 597 BCE, 2Kings 24:11-14
Tribe of Judah brings Temple firewood, second time
Esther made queen, 362 BCE
Death of R. Yair Hayyim Bacharach of Worms, 1702, Havvot Yair
Death of R. Solomon Eger, 1852, Gilayon Maharasha
Death of Ber Borochov, Po'alei Zion movement, 1917
Birth of Hank Greenberg, baseball hall of famer, 1911
Birth of Helena Rubenstein, cosmetics multimillionaire, 1870
Birth of R. Levi Herzfeld, rabbi at Brunswick, 1810
Death of Simon Bondi, Hebrew writer, Dresden, 1816
Death of Zechariah Mendel of Podhaycz, rabbinical author, Frankfurt on Oder, 1816
Birth of Julius Bernstein, physiologist, professor at Halle, Berlin, 1839
Death of Joseph von Hirsch, father of Moritz von Hirsch, Munich, 1885