November
1

1179:
Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of
all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come
as no surprise that two years later, in 1182 Phillip confiscated all of the…

OCTOBER 31

445 BCE: In Jerusalem Ezra, the Scribe read the Scroll
of the Law, the Torah, to the Jews of Judea as described in Nehemiah 9:1. 

475: Twenty-five years
after the redaction of the Jerusalem Talmud, Orestes refused to “wear
the Purple…

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…

OCTOBER 29

539
BCE:  On the secular calendar, Babylon fell to
Cyrus the Great of Persia.  This is a
significant date because it marked the start of the return of the exiles to
Eretz Israel where the Second Temple would be built.

969:
Byzant…

OCTOBER
28

97:
Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius
Trajanus as his heir and successor. Trajan would not become Emperor until Nerva
died in January of the following year. Trajan will be remembered as the rule…