History events
1506 — Jews settle in Pinsk and secure lands for synagogue and cemetery
1819 — (18th of Av, 5579) With the mobs crying “Hep, hep!” an anti-Semitic riot broke out in Frankfort.
2001 — (20th of Av, 5761) A suicide bomber struck a busy intersection in Jerusalem, ….. blowing up a Sbarro Pizza Parlor, killing 15, 7 of whom were children and wounding 130. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The dead included Zvika Golombek, 26, from Karmiel; Shoshana Yehudit (Judy) Greenbaum, 31 (5 months pregnant), from Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.;Tehila Maoz, 18, from Jerusalem; Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, from Jerusalem; Michal Raziel, 16, from Jerusalem; Malka Chana (Malki) Roth, 15, from Jerusalem; Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, from Neria; Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, from Neria; Ra’aya Schijveschuurder, 14, from Neria; Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, from Neria; Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, from Neria;] Lily Shimashvili, 33, from Jerusalem; Tamara Shimashvili, 8, from Jerusalem; Yocheved Shoshan, 10, from Jerusalem; and Giora Balash, 60, from Brazil
People
2001 — (20th of Av, 5761) Seventeen year old Aliza Malka was killed by terrorists “in a drive-by shooting.”