Non-musical history for today: 1938 – Nazi Germany issued the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property, forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization. Let's hope a similar regime doesn't do that to us come January.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 3.

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Non-musical history for today: 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gave his first public reading in the United States. It was for A Christmas Carol and Pickwick Papers. He actually recited and performed A Christmas Carol at the Parker House Hotel (where he had an apartment) first, and then to the public at Tremont Temple. I stayed at the Omni Parker House in Boston and loved it. It is where both the Boston Cream Pie and Parker House rolls originated, too.

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

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Non-musical history for today: Two important civil liberties issues happened within three years of each other:

1952 – The New York Daily News reported the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery. She wasn't the first to have the procedures (yes, more than one), but the first notable case.

1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott. Nuff said. You go, Rosa!

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1782 – In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain signed preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). Will you? I guess. Will you?! I guess. Well, okay, let's. I guess.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1947 – The United Nations General Assembly approved the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. I think it was the beginning of the crap we are still witnessing today. It says a plan for Palestine, but I think it meant that Palestine would just be pushed aside, and Zionists would move in and be "awarded" a lot of Palestinian land to the Jewish people to form "Israel." It's not the same Israel supposedly in that "great work of fiction," but it's played off as if it were. BS, I say.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway paid a £40 (equivalent to £14,557 in 2023) bond in lieu of posting wedding banns, which enabled them to marry immediately. Stephanie and I looked into Italy as a potential spot for our wedding, but when we researched Italy, we found that there were still some bans (as it is sometimes spelled) in place. So Scotland it was.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. It started as a disagreement about a drug rehab facility and escalated over time. White said he meant to kill two other people that day. White ended up killing himself by carbon dioxide suffocation in 1985, two years after his release from prison.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day was observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress. The Thanksgiving fun doesn't stop there!

1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the "Franksgiving" controversy from 1939 to 1941, it was observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years, as we now know it.

Franksgiving was FDR's move of the holiday up a week to try to help the recovery and morale during the end of the Great Depression. At the time, it was considered bad form for retailers to display Christmas decorations or have Christmas sales before the celebration of Thanksgiving, a phenomenon later referred to as "Christmas creep." That is obviously no longer the case. Franksgiving ended up just being a lot of chaos and protests.

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

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Non-musical history for today: 1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia voted to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993. This happened after the Velvet Revolution (mostly peaceful, I think) and led to the Velvet Divorce (the actual split mentioned here).

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

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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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