Yesterday C-Note's Almanac Tomorrow

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1400
Death comes for poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

1415
During the Hundred Years' War, Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeated the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.

1854
Lord James Cardigan leads the Charge of the Light Brigade over open terrain against well-defended Russian artillery at Balaclava during the Crimean War.
His brigade, mostly armed with swords, will lose nearly half of the 673 troops in the charge.

1881

Painter Pablo Picasso born in Málaga, Spain.

1889
Director, producer, and screenwriter Abel Gance (Napoleon) born in Paris.

1905
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1914
Poet John Berryman born in McAlester, Oklahoma.

1930
Author Harold Brodkey (The Runaway Soul) born in Staunton, Illinois.

1941
Author Anne Tyler (The Accidental Tourist) born in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

1948
Poet & biographer Daniel Mark Epstein born in Washington D. C.

1957
Death comes for mob boss Albert Anastasia while sitting in the barber chair at the Park Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan.
He lunges for his assailants but it is only their reflection in the barbers mirror.

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