1997 Event Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991 1996 Death Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47 1995 Event Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians 1992 Death Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66 1989 Event Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court 1972 Death John Berryman, U.S. poet (Imaginary Jew), dies 1948 Birthday Mario Viegas, actor, The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao 1940 Event Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants 1937 Death Frank Vosper, actor and writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37 1926 Event Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover 1909 Birthday A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet, Hath Not a Jew... 1892 Birthday Sam de Vries, actor, Wandering Jew 1873 Birthday Jakob Wassermann, born in Germany, novelist, My Life as German and Jew 1858 Event Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament 1852 Birthday Barend Barendse, actor and director, Wandering Jew 1843 Event Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy 1776 Death Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War 1775 Event Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) 1570 Event Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew" 1391 Event Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
