1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1995 Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn and Queens
1990 Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies
1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1986 Armand Hammer returns to U.S. with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1978 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois
1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1976 1st Jewish film and TV festival
1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1974 U.S. Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on New York City
1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as Secretary of State
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1967 David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84
1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
1965 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
1955 D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad
1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow
1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin
1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies
1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents
1950 Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies
1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1947 Day after United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1947 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College
1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
1945 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1944 Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secretan/St-Mande
1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1943 Anti Jewish riot in Rome
1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz
1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated
1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1943 Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
1943 Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1943 Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp
1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms
1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France
1941 Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84
1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1941 Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars
1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II
1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated
1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania
1941 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead
1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music
1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
1940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
1940 George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker
1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1940 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1940 Gov of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
1939 Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1939 German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1938 German and Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
1938 Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School
1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1934 Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch foreign min/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94
1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1933 Madeleine M Kunin, Switzerland, Gov-D-Vt, 1st Jewish Governor of Vermont
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1929 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
1926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st U.S. Jewish soldier to die in WW I
1924 Bess Myerson, born in Bronx, New York, 1st Jewish Miss America, 1945
1922 President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
1921 Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1918 American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1916 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
1910 Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star, 1932 Olympics bronze
1908 Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist
1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce
1906 Abraham Beame, Mayor-D-NYC, New York City's 1st Jewish mayor
1905 Anna "Ans" van Dike, "the Young", Jewish nazi collaborator
1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania
1903 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
1903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1902 Harry Golden, Jewish humorist and writer, 2 cents Plain, Only in America
1901 Jewish National Fund starts
1897 New York City Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)
1897 1st U.S. orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York
1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey)
1886 David L Yule, 1st Jewish U.S. senator, dies
1882 David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council
1881 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer, Pipelines, Jewish Song
1867 Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
1864 Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist, Children of Ghetto
1859 Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer, Dreyfus Affair
1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
1852 Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1849 Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet, "New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty
1847 Solomon Schechter, U.S. Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1840 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1838 Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1801 1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1798 Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
1791 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1786 Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56
1760 1st Jewish prayer books printed in U.S.
1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1751 Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
1750 Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods
1730 1st Jewish congregation in U.S. forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, New York City"
1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1656 1st Jewish doctor in U.S., Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1654 1st Jewish immigrant to U.S., Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam
1654 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1619 Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
1596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
1583 Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1559 Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1553 Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud
1524 Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1453 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
1407 Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow
1391 Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery
1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1267 Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69
1189 Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England
1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1138 Anacletus II, [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies
1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1105 Rashi, [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki], Jewish intellectual, dies
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