75 years ago
Sept. 30, 1921
A steamer, en route from the United States to Romania with a cargo of articles worth $125, 000 for the relief of the suffering Jews in Eastern Europe, sinks.
50 years ago
Sept. 27, 1946
In Brussels, the foundation stone of a memorial to Jewish victims during the German occupation of Belgium is laid in the Etterbeck Cemetery.
25 years ago
Oct. 1, 1971
Rabbis Paul Laderman and Benjamin Segal of Berkeley Hillel protest the presentation of the Israel Medal of Valor to Gov. Ronald Reagan.
10 years ago
Oct. 3, 1986
Soviet Jewry activists, responding to the sudden plan for a Reagan-Gorbachev pre-summit in Iceland, arrange for representatives to plead the case of the 400,000 Jews still confined in the Soviet Union.