Non-musical history for today: 1845 – In a State of the Union message, President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. This is known today as “manifest destiny,” or obvious and inevitable. Aggressively we did, too.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 2.

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