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Non-musical history for today: 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court. Too bad the current male African-American justice isn’t as honorable as Justice Marshall was.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. 43 years and 364 days before the first televised World Series (see yesterday’s history), the FIRST World Series featured my favorite team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, against the Boston Americans (who went on to become the Boston Red Sox). The Americans won the series 5-3 (it was a best-of-nine series), winning the final four games in a row.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 1.

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Non-musical history for today: A big day in baseball history: 1947 – The 1947 World Series began. It was the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field. A big day indeed.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for September 30.

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Non-musical history for today: 1923 – The Mandate for Palestine took effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon also took effect. The Syria and Lebanon parts took. Mandatory Palestine, however, was a harder pill to swallow. Mandatory Palestine (which meant by mandate, not compulsory or required) was inundated with Jewish immigrants, and this led to an Arab revolt in the 1930s and the Jewish uprising in the late 1940s. We know that Israel was given statehood in 1948, and it was pretty much stolen from the Palestinians by the UN.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for September 29.

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Non-musical history for today: 1941 – Ted Williams achieved a .406 batting average for the season, and became the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better. I could see Ohtani breaking that record. I mean, he was the first person to hit 50HR and and 50 stolen bases in a season. I think he could do it.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman conquest of England. My name, Beeman, is Anglonese for Beaumont (and we were keepers of bees). Beaumont is French and was part of the Norman “team” of peoples involved in the conquest. So, I say it’s English, yet it’s still Norman.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for September 27.

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Non-musical history for today: 1580 – Francis Drake finished his circumnavigation of the Earth in Plymouth, England. It’s also known as “Drake’s Raiding Mission.” While it was called a “discovery mission,” it was more about establishing world domination to compete with Spain and Portugal.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for September 26.

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Non-musical history for today: 1789 – The United States Congress passed twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment. Some folks think the second amendment is more important than the first. I am not one of them. Then again, those who are pro-Second Amendment probably don’t really know what it is they are reading.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for September 25.

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Non-musical history for today: 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument. Yes, the rock formation (also known as Bear’s Lodge) that was in the Spielberg film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also note: there is no apostrophe in Devils Tower due to signage standards in the area.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 38 – Drusilla, Caligula’s sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have had an incestuous relationship, was deified. If you watch the Tinto Brass-directed film Caligula from 1979, they depicted it as accurate, but that was Gore Vidal’s interpretation.

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

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