Non-musical history for today: 1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later. Was he the first official “domestic terrorist?” It was considered for a televised execution, but that was abandoned. Select witnesses were able to watch on closed-circuit TV, though.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1861 – The Battle of Fairfax Court House was fought. This was the first land engagement of the Civil War with fatal casualties. A Union scouting party clashed with the local militia in Fairfax, Virginia, resulting in the war’s first deaths in action and the first wounding of a field-grade officer.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1955 – The U.S. Supreme Court expanded on its Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation “at all deliberate speed.” I’m really surprised that the Cheeto hasn’t tried to get this one overturned.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for May 31.

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Non-musical history for today: 1536 – King Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, the future King Edward VI. She was the only wife of Henry VIII to receive a queen’s funeral, and Henry was later buried alongside her remains in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day to my workwife, my The Less Desirables co-host, Bethany!

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

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NOTE: This post was late today. The holiday will totally mess with your schedule if you’re not careful. 

Non-musical history for today: 1851 – Sojourner Truth delivered her famous Ain’t I a Woman? Speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Of course, a white woman became better known for it during the Civil War in 1863, but when Nell Irvin Painter’s 1996 biography of Truth came out, historians shifted their citations.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them. America is some bastiches when you get through the dark, checkered.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceased the manufacture of the Ford Model T and began to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. I don’t know if I could tell the difference between the two.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee began its first session. This led to many Hollywood stars being “blacklisted” for ties to communism. Some, like Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Alan Lomax, Paul Robeson, and Yip Harburg, left the U.S. or went underground to find work. Some screenwriters and authors wrote under pseudonyms. It was yet another stupid time in our country. We have a lot of those.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde was convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison. I shake my head at this. Who gives a rat’s patootie?!? Leave people alone!

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City was opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. It is as much a landmark of NYC as the Twin Towers were, or the Freedom Tower, now.

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

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