This date in Jewish History – July 1st
70 c.e. Titus set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem.
1388 Jews of Lithuania received a Charter of Privilege.
1776 First Jew to lose his life in the American Revolution.
1862 Russian Jews granted permission to print Jewish books.
1920 Sir Herbert Samuel became first British High-Commissioner of Palestine.
1941 Pogrom in Jassy, the cradle of Rumanian anti-Semitism claimed 5000 Jewish
lives.