Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
Israel's Knesset cornerstone laid, 1958
Start of first Jewish newspaper in America, Hadoar, 1921
The giving of equal rights to the Jews proclaimed in Croatia, 1873
Death of R. Zevi Hirsch Chajes, Lemberg, 1855, Ateret Zevi
Birth of Leopold Kollonitsch, cardinal, anti-semite, Komorn, 1631
Birth of Calmann Levy, Parisian publisher, 1819
Death of Jacques Offenbach, composer, convert, Paris, 1880
Death of Isaac Hirschensohn, rabbinical author, London, 1896