JUNE 26/SIVAN 20

3830 (70 CE):

Yahrzeit of Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, Tanna, head of the Sanhedrin in the generation of the destruction of the Second Temple, one of the leaders during the Great Revolt against the Romans and one of the Ten Martyrs mentioned in Jewish liturgy.

"By three things is the world sustained: by judgment, by truth and by peace." Avot 1.18

1904:  

Birthday of Peter Lorre (Laszlo Lowenstein), actor who starred in film classics such as M, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and Arsenic and Old Lace.