Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Moroccan Jews liberated, 1880
Completion of Operation Magic Carpet, 1950, all Yemenite Jews to Israel
Death of R. Shmuel Schneersohn, Rebbe Maharash, 1882
Death of Rabbi Akiva Eiger of Posen, talmudist, 1837
Death of Jacob Henry Schiff, philanthropist, 1920
Death of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of house, philanthropist, Frankfurt, 1812
Birth of Joseph Samuel Frey, converted American Jewish missionary, Maynstockheim, 1771
Birth of Julian Goldsmid, M. P., 1838
Death of Bar Oppenheim, Talmudic author, Pressburg, 1849