79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii) [approx date] 1305 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward Iof England at Smithfield, London 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 | 
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