16thט״זTammuzתמוזAM 0000ה׳תשפ״ו

According to tradition, עגל הזהב EGEL HAʾZAHAV was fashioned.

According to rabbinic tradition, the death of Chur בן מרים BEN MIRIAM.

Pope Gregory IX ordered manuscripts of התלמוד HAʾTALMUD (the Talmud) to be seized.

Death of ר׳ דוד Heilpern R. DAVID of Ostroh.

Ostroh · Europe

Demolishment of the gates of the Jüdischer Wohnbezirk (ghetto) in Venice.

Venice · Europe

Murder of ר׳ אהרן יוסף Bakst R. AHARON YOSEF.

Šiauliai · Europe

Day 237 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

ארץ ישראל Ereẓ Yisraʾel

Day 592 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

Death of ר׳ אברהם יהושע העשיל R. AVRAHAM YEHOSUA HESCHEL.

United States · N. America

A deadly series of bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh killed eighty-eight people.

The kidnapping of two soldiers of מדינת ישראל MEDINAT YISRAʾEL and the deaths of eight others led to the Second Lebanon War.

Official memorial day for the Second Lebanon War.