1941 Event "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated 1941 Event Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto 1941 Event Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto 1941 Event Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas 1908 Birthday Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist, Budapest String Quartet 1901 Birthday Jascha Heifetz, Vilna Lithuania, U.S. violin virtuoso, Carnegie Hall 1856 Birthday Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place, 1878 1835 Birthday Cesar A. Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer 1797 Death Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna, dies
