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This Day In History
1415
The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
1938
The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
1977
Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
Famous Birthdays
1825
Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
1838
Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
1864
John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1881
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1888
Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
1944
James Carville, American political strategist and commentator
1970
Chely Wright, American country music artist
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