Non-musical history for today: 1521 – The Diet of Worms began, lasting until May 25. Doesn’t that sound delicious!? It doesn’t mean what it says, any of it, other than “of.” A “diet” is a convention or meeting of parliamentary groups or legislature. Worms is pronounced virms and is one of the oldest cities in Northern Europe. So, it was a legislative meeting in a town called Worms. But, really, all that was to say that the most famous thing of this congregation was the fact that Martin Luther was summoned there in order to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to Exsurge Domine from Pope Leo X. He had famously wiped his backside (not literally) with it the December before.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 28.

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