B"H Yom Yom
based on Day by Day in Jewish History 
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l (KTAV) 

[18 MarCheshvan] Chovevei Tzion, the pioneer Russian Zionist movement was founded, 1884. ### Hermann Goering announced plans for Madagascar as a home for European Jewry, 1938. ### 16,000 killed in Pinsk, 1942.

[November 16] Many Jews were killed in riots in Paris, 1380. ### Warsaw ghetto was sealed by the Nazis, 1940. ### The British occupied Tel Aviv, 1917. ### Yeshiva University came into existence (as a university), 1945, first American university under Jewish auspices.

[19 MarCheshvan] Earliest known Yiddish letter from America (Barnard Gratz to his brother Michael in London), 1785. (Widespread use of Yiddish in America began in 1880 with the large influx of Russian Jews fleeing pogroms. U.S. census of 1940 counted 1,750,000 Yiddish speaking Jews.)
[November 17] Jews of England were imprisoned and many suffered martyrdom, 1278. ### Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus was born, 331. He favored the return of Jerusalem to the Jews. (Do we have to go back that far in history to find a non-Jewish leader with a similar disposition?) 
[20 MarCheshvan] Restricted rights for Austrian Jews, 1396. ### Chana Senesh executed, 1944.

[November 18] Jewish community of Ferrara, Italy miraculously escaped disaster when a violent earthquake struck, 1571. ### Jerusalem's new reservoir was opened, 1958, ending a long history of water problems that made Jerusalem more vulnerable to siege. 

[21 MarCheshvan] Jews barred from German schools, 1938. ### Chaim Weizmann died, 1952.

[November 19] Emma Lazarus died, 1887. ### The SHLA"H arrived in Jerusalem, 1621.

[22 MarCheshvan] Jewish physicians barred from treating Christians, Sicily, 1296. ### Yahrzeit of the Tosfot Yom Tov, 1616. ### Proposal to establish independent Jewish homeland in Israel, 1818 (by an English missionary to Czar of Russia - go figure). ### Deportation of Budapest Jews began, 1944 (late?).

[November 20] Anwar Sadat spoke to the Knesset, 1977. ### First anti-semitic attack over radio in the U.S. by Father Caughlin, 1938. ### Jewish population of Israel reached one million, 1949. ### All Jewish wine was dumped by Arabs and heavy fines imposed on the Jewish community of Jerusalem, 1521. The Arabs blamed the Jewish use of wine for a severe water shortage. 

[23 MarCheshvan] Stones of the Mizbei'ach defiled by the Greeks were removed from the Beit Hamikdash area - holiday established to mark date, 164 B.C.E. ### Italian anti-Semitic code published, 1938.
[November 21] First chassidic town in the U.S. (New Square) elects its mayor, 1961. ### An English missionary petitioned the Czar of Russia to restore the Jewish independence in the land of Israel, 1818. ### Ashdod port open for business, 1965. 

[24 MarCheshvan] Yarzheit of Baron Edmund de Rothschild, 1934. ### Patria, ship with illeagal immigrants, sank in Haifa port, 200 lost, 1940.
[November 22] U.N. General Assembly approved the right of the Palestenians to a sovereign state at the expense of Israel, 1974. ### Strasbourg prohibits circumcision and the wearing of beards, 1793. It ordered the burning of all books in Hebrew. 

[25 MarCheshvan] Mobs attack Jews of Cracow, 1407.

[November 23] Herzliya founded, 1924. ### Anti-Jewish riots in Bucharest claimed many Jewish lives, 1593.