Sunday, August 23, 2020

On This Day in History

Historical Events

1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code

1850 1st US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

2005 Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane

Barbara Eden
89th Birthday