| Western | Hebrew | Hebrew Month | Jewish Holidays | Torah Portion | This Day in History/Notes |
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| 1 | 14 | Cheshvan |
| | All Saint's Day, Día de Muertos,
Daylight Savings Time Ends, 1348: The Union of Valencia attacked the Jews of Morvedre for allegedly being royalists.
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| 2 | 15 | Cheshvan |
| | 1917: 17 IWW members beaten, tarred and feathered by anti-Union mob in Tulsa, OK
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| 3 | 16 | Cheshvan |
| | US Election Day, 1956: The Khan Yunis killings by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza result in the deaths of 275 Palestinians.
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| 4 | 17 | Cheshvan |
| | 1913: Benjamin Cardozo was elected Justice of State Supreme Court of New York.
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| 5 | 18 | Cheshvan |
| | 2002: Lisa Lingle elected as first Jewish governor of Hawaii
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| 6 | 19 | Cheshvan |
| | 1962: The 17th session of the U.N. General Assembly passed Res. 1761 condemning apartheid in South Africa.
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| 7 | 20 | Cheshvan |
| Parashat Vayera | 1910: 1st Airfreight delivery
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| 8 | 21 | Cheshvan |
| | 1892: Thirty thousand black and white, factory and dock workers staged a general strike in New Orleans.
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| 9 | 22 | Cheshvan |
| | 1938: First day of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, 1917: 41 suffrage picketers arrested in front of White house
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| 10 | 23 | Cheshvan |
| | 1938: Second day of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany
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| 11 | 24 | Cheshvan |
| | Veteran's Day (US), Armistice Day, 1887: Four anarchist labor activists executed in Chicago for the Haymarket riot
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| 12 | 25 | Cheshvan |
| | 1989: Tens of thousands of Americans joined “Mobilize for Women’s Lives” in more than 150 cities and towns nationwide.
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| 13 | 26 | Cheshvan |
| | 1956: SCOTUS ruled segregation unconstitutional in public transportation in the case of Browder v. Gayle.
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| 14 | 27 | Cheshvan |
| Parashat Chayei Sara | 1971: Mariner 9 becomes first human spacecraft to orbit a planet
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| 15 | 28 | Cheshvan |
| | 1935: German Jews deprived of citizenship rights
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| 16 | 29 | Cheshvan |
Sigd | | 1989: Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were brutally murdered by U.S. trained and supported death squads in El Salvador.
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| 17 | 1 | Kislev | Rosh Chodesh Kislev |
| 1980: Hundreds were arrested at the Women's Pentagon Action protest of patriarchy and its war-making.
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| 18 | 2 | Kislev |
| | 1964: FBI director J. Edgar Hoover publicly characterized Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. as "the most notorious liar in the country." King replied that Hoover "has apparently faltered under the awesome burden, complexities, and responsibilities of his office."
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| 19 | 3 | Kislev |
| | 1943: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
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| 20 | 4 | Kislev |
| | Transgender Day of Rememberance
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| 21 | 5 | Kislev |
| Parashat Toldot | 164 BCE: Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem.
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| 22 | 6 | Kislev |
| | 1909: In New York City, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union went on strike against sweatshop conditions in what became known as the "Uprising of the 20,000" and the "Girl's Revolt."
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| 23 | 7 | Kislev | |
| 2004: US troops invade town of Fallujah in Iraq
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| 24 | 8 | Kislev | |
| 1859: Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
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| 25 | 9 | Kislev | |
| 1986: President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that $30 million in profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to
support the Nicaraguan contra insurgents in violation of U.S. law.
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| 26 | 10 | Kislev | |
| Thanksgiving Day (USA), 1970: American Indian activists marked Thanksgiving with a National Day of Mourning for Native Americans by occupying Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
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| 27 | 11 | Kislev | |
| National Buy Nothing Day
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| 28 | 12 | Kislev | |
Parashat Vayetzei | 1991: The U.S. Congress passed the Comprehensive Threat Reduction Act which provided funding to assist with the destruction of Soviet nuclear and chemical warheads.
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| 29 | 13 | Kislev | |
| 1864: US cavalary troops kill nearly 500 Cheyenne & Arapaho in the Sand Creek Massacre
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| 30 | 14 | Kislev | |
| 1215: Pope Innocent II, in a papal bull ordered that Jews, "whether men or women, must in all Christian countries distinguish themselves from the rest of the
population in public places by a special kind of clothing."
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