On This Day in History March 23, 2019

Historical Events 1490  1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah", a code of Jewish religious law is published 1775  Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war 1919  8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky 1933  Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers 1945  Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998) Joan Crawford (1905 - 1977) Margaret of Anjou (1430 - 1482) Roger Bannister (1929 - 2018) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Bhagat Singh (1907 - 1931) Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - 2011) More Famous Deaths