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August 23: 1st US Women's Rights Convention, Bin Laden's Declaration of War and Hurricane Katrina

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August 23, 2020

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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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Rudolph Valentino

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William Wallace

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