April 30

313: Licinius
defeated Maximinus at the Battle of Tzirallum, thus making him the Emperor of
the Eastern Roman Empire.  The Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was his
brother-in-law, Constantine. The two in laws would clash repeatedly un…

September 30

132
C.E. (10 Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Akivah ben Joseph known as Rabbi
Akiva passed away.  He was born in 50
C.E., twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple.   According to tradition, he was an unle…

JUNE 30

713
CE: In Spain, Visigoth nobility which had held out against the invading Moslem
forces, throughout the winter of 712 finally surrendered to the Arabs. A
majority of the remaining Goths and Hispano-Roman people who lived in the newly
acquire…

November 30

1215: The Fourth Lateran Council which had been led by
Innocent III came to a close. The Fourth Lateran Council made the first
official use of the term “transubstantiation,” with reference to the
Eucharist (Lord’s Supper). The adoption of …

OCTOBER
30

1207BCE: According to “three
scientists from Beersheba’s Ben Gurion University” who used NASA date today is
the date of the eclipse which is described in the Book of Joshua as God making
the sun stand still so that the Israelites could defe…