23 AUGUST

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

Famous Birthdays

Keith Moon
(1946 - 1978)

River Phoenix
(1970 - 1993)

Kobe Bryant
39th Birthday

Famous Death's

William Wallace
( - 1305)

Rudolph Valentino
(1895 - 1926)

Ed Warren
(1926 - 2006)

Famous Weddings

1876 Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler

1942 "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)

1962 Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell

1970 US Solicitor General Ken Starr weds Alice Mendell

1975 Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England

Famous Divorces

2010 Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6 years of marriage