On 25 March, 1144, a boy's corpse showing signs of a violent death was found in Thorpe Wood near Norwich. The body was recognized as that of William, a tanner's apprentice. The grave was opened by William's uncle, the priest Godwin Stuart, the body recognized, the burial Office read, and the grave recovered.

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the US Civil War (1861–1865). Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America.

Grant was at the center of one of the most blatant anti-Jewish actions in American history when he issued General Order No. 11 on December 17, 1862. It was an instruction for the expulsion of all Jews in his military district that comprised areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. The order was issued as part of a campaign against a black market in Southern cotton, which Grant thought was being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders".

Ari L. Goldman in a recent article in The Jewish Week tells us about the cover-up of anti-Semitism by the New York Times in 1991. He attributes this to the importance of the “frame” (or framing) in journalism. Journalists framed the story as a “racial” conflict and failed to see the anti-Semitism inherent in the riots.

One of the few exceptions was A.M. Rosenthal who wrote in his column for the New York Times two weeks after the riots ended “The press treats it all as some kind of cultural clash between a poverty-ridden people fed up with life and a powerful, prosperous and unfortunately peculiar bunch of stuck-up neighbors — very sad of course, but certainly understandable. No — it is an anti-Semitic pogrom and the words should not be left unsaid.”

On February 4, 1840, an Italian monk, Padre Tomaso de Camangiano, Superior of a Capuchin cloister in Damascus, and his servant mysteriously disappeared from Ottoman ruled Damascus.

839 years ago on this date, Jews accused of ritual murder in the French city of Blois.

Fifty years ago today, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announced that Israel had captured Nazi leader Adolph Eichmann who had been hiding in Argentina.

Sixty-five years ago today, Nazi forces surrendered to the Soviet Army with the conclusion of the Battle of Berlin.

355 years ago on this day, the directors of the Dutch West India Company refused to grant Governor Peter Stuyvesant permission to bar Jews from entering New Amsterdam, essentially ending official efforts to restrict Jewish immigration into North America.

Following the traumatic military defeat to the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, French society began looking for scapegoats. A few decades after the war, a cleaning woman discovered a handwritten list offering Germany confidential French military information. The person to bear the blame for this piece of paper became a French-Jewish officer named Alfred Dreyfus.

The Doctors Plot was an anti-Semitic incident that took place in the USSR during the last two years of Joseph Stalin's life. As the Soviet dictator was aging, he became increasingly paranoid of an assassination. While Stalin is famous for his mistrust of Jews, he was also known to be skeptical of doctors. Many doctors in the Soviet Union were Jews and they would become Stalin's direct target.