Yom Kippur
Akeidah
Birth and circumcision of Abraham
Birth of Ishmael
Ezekiel prophesy of dry bones, Ezek 40
Ninevites repent
Zechariah killed in Temple, 2Chron 24:21
Moses returns with second set of tablets
Birth of Rebecca
Jacob and Esau confrontation at Ne'ila
Death of Bilha, Jacob's wife
Jacob learns of "death" of Joseph
Start of Yom Kippur War, 1973
Tunis and Tripoli massacre, 1864
Emancipation of the Jews in Baden, 1862
Death of Eleazar b. Shammua, one of 10 martyrs
Death of R. Ahai b. Avuha, a savora, 511
Death of Shabbetai Zevi, pseudomessiah, 1676
Death of Samuel David Luzzatto, poet, Padua, 1865
Death of Abraham Mapu, novelist, 1867
Birth of George Gershwin, composer, 1898
Death of David Cohen de Lara, Hebrew author, Hamburg, 1674
Death of R. Meir Grotwohi, Koblenz, 1690
Birth of Albert Cohn, Orientalist and philanthropist, Pressburg, 1814
Death of Jehuda Scherschewsky, teacher at the rabbinical school at Wilna, Kowno, 1866
Death of Abraham Mapu, Neo-Hebraic poet, Konigsberg, 1867