Evil Swing Music, Largest Naval Battle In History, Nelson Mandala Sentenced To Prison

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".

1940 -  Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

1944 - Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navyand the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.

1962 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.

1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.