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Non-musical history for today: 1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. I find this so intriguing. No Cooper? No parachute? No money? Weird.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 24.

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Non-musical history for today: 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria became the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage. This name is where the term “thespian” came from to address actors.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 23.

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Non-musical history for today: 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally was seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterward. Was it really Oswald? Did he act alone?

Happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day to my brother, Reese.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 22.

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Non-musical history for today: 1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers signed the Mayflower Compact. Although the agreement contained a pledge of loyalty to the King, the Puritans, and other Protestant Separatists were dissatisfied with the state of the Church of England, the limited extent of the English Reformation, and the reluctance of King James I of England to enforce further reform. 41 of the ship’s 101 passengers signed the document.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 21.

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Non-musical history for today: Look, all you need to know is that I turn 54 today. You can Venmo me gifts if you want. I’m kidding(ish).

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 20.

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Non-musical history for today: 1493 – Christopher Columbus went ashore on an island called Borinquen, which he had first seen the day before. He named it San Juan Bautista. This was later renamed (again) Puerto Rico. Those poor Boriquas.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 19.

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Non-musical history for today: 1963 – The first push-button telephone went into service. For those born after, say 1999, a push-button telephone was a blockish apparatus that you actually talked into to communicate with someone else verbally. You would “dial” their “phone number” with push buttons that were not only adorned with numbers but letters (at the time, no “Q” and no “Z”) and you could spell words in phone numbers. Before that, “telephones” used a “rotary” dial that you had to spin with a finger (or pencil or pen). The distance you spun would determine the number you meant to dial. It could be slightly inaccurate if you didn’t go all the way to the catch.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 18.

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Non-musical history for today: 1800 – The United States Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C. Of course, it had been meeting in Philly before that. But, they moved into the “new” (domeless) Congress building on this date.

Oh, and happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day to someone who doesn’t like their birthday being announced. I won’t mention their name, but their initials are Eugene B Sims!

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 17.

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Non-musical history for today: 1938 – LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. Again, I reiterate that I have never done an illegal substance, nor have I ever been high outside of alcohol. But, I’d like to experience a “trip” just once.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 16.

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Non-musical history for today: 1943 – German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps.” Jeez o’Pete, Nazis were grade-A a-holes. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen here.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 15.

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