Beeswax Vinyl Daily
By: Timothy G Beeman II
Language: en-US
Categories: Music, History, Commentary
A quick look through music history for today!
Episodes
Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 11, 2026
Jan 11, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1787 – William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. I chuckle like a 12-year-old boy when I see moons and Uranus in the same sentence…
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 11.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 10, 2026
Jan 10, 2026Non-musical history for today: 9AD – The Western Han dynasty ended when Wang Mang claimed that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty. Even now, 2017 years later, across the pond from China, that is being attempted. Hmmm…
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 10.
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Duration: 00:08:44Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 9, 2026
Jan 09, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1816 – Humphry Davy tested his safety lamp (cleverly called the Davy Lamp) for miners at Hebburn Colliery in the UK. It wasn’t the first of its kind, albeit different than the predecessors. George Stephenson devised a lamp that Davy claimed was based on his idea. Stephenson admitted that he had no scientific knowledge but came by his design following erroneous theories. The patent officers decided the two had to share. The northern areas of the UK used Stephenson’s lamp, while the southern areas used Davy’s.
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Duration: 00:05:53Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 8, 2026
Jan 08, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States was organized. Of course, it was more like the present-day Republican party than Democratic, but still.
Also, it’s my dad’s birthday today! Happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day, Pops!!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 8.
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Duration: 00:07:33Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 7, 2026
Jan 07, 2026Non-musical history for today: Pope Gregory XIII was born on this day in 1502. I bring this up since it was he who introduced the Gregorian calendar that I mentioned a few days back.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 7.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 6, 2026
Jan 06, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift. The theory was seismic! Get it?
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 6.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 5, 2026
Jan 05, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses. Ford was the first major American corporation to adopt the policy, even though unions worldwide had been adopting the policy since the late 1700s. The $5 minimum was double the regular wage. In today’s money, it would be ~$125 per hour.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 5.
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Duration: 00:09:35Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 4, 2026
Jan 04, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company recorded Electrocuting an Elephant and Topsy’s death. Topsy was deemed a “bad” elephant after attacking several people. PETA stopped promoting Topsy’s execution for the Luna Park opening. But, supposedly, if you look hard enough, you can still find the video of the execution. However, why you’d want to see it? I wouldn’t get at all.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 4.
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Duration: 00:06:51Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 3, 2026
Jan 03, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1870 – Construction work began on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. I haven’t been on or under it (that I know of) but I have seen it from a ferry.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 3.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 2, 2026
Jan 02, 2026Non-musical history for today: 1955 – Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, took power, but was quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera’s death was discovered. It sounds like a movie plot. But, reality is often stranger than fiction and the plots come from something, right?
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for January 2.
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Duration: 00:04:37Beeswax Vinyl Daily — January 1, 2026
Jan 01, 2026Non-musical history for today: 45 BC – The Julian calendar took effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Republic, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year. But because it made the equinoxes fluid, instead of being on the 21st of March and September, they were coming earlier and earlier… and also, leap years were happening erratically. Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar in October 1582, which shortened the year by 0.0075 days. It may not sound like a lot, but to make up for it, they skipped 10 days. October 4, 1582, was followed by October 15, 1582. Those skipped days never existed. Orth...
Duration: 00:05:35Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1759 – Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and started brewing Guinness. That would be around £11,000 today. But, they no longer pay that price because they eventually bought the property outright.
If you’re drinking Guinness (or anything) tonight to celebrate the new year, please drink responsibly.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 31.
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Duration: 00:07:01Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed. It lasted until 1991. I obviously don’t remember the formation of the Union, but I do remember the breakup.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 30.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 29, 2025
Dec 29, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1913 – Cecil B. DeMille started filming Hollywood’s first feature film, The Squaw Man.
Hollywood really wasn’t a thing until this. It was a silent film and the directorial debut for DeMille.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 29.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 28, 2025
Dec 28, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars took to the streets in San Francisco.
I have never been to Frisco, but I would want to ride a trolley if I got to go.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 28.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 27, 2025
Dec 27, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1831 – Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he began to formulate his theory of evolution.
Also, happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day to my mother!!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 27.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rose up against Czar Nicholas I in the Decembrist revolt, but were later suppressed. Even though this is “non-musical,” I do believe that’s where the band The Decemberists gets its name.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 26.
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Duration: 00:03:49Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 25, 2025
Dec 25, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1492 – The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, ran onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch. I snigger at the thought of this. Columbus was not a good dude.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 25.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 24, 2025
Dec 24, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1865 – Former Confederate officers Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones, and James Crowe formed the Ku Klux Klan. That’s mighty “Christ”masy of them. Yeah, not at all.
Get to bed early kids, Santa is watching.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 24.
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Duration: 00:03:57Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 23, 2025
Dec 23, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1815 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen was first published. I included this because my wife is a huge fan. Did you know that the movie Clueless, with Alicia Silverstone, was basically a loose retelling of this story? Yep.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 23.
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Duration: 00:06:08Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025Non-musical history for today: 401 – Pope Innocent I was elected, the only pope to succeed his father in the office. Now, there’s debate as to whether he was actually the son of Anastasius I. Still, regardless of actual lineage, the fact that it hasn’t happened since (or before) is amazing seeing how many Popes there have actually been (267 officially, 268 unofficially).
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 22.
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Duration: 00:04:13Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 21, 2025
Dec 21, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1879 – World premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Apropos of nothing, I think Henrik Ibsen has one of the coolest beards ever. Look him up. You’ll see.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 21.
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Duration: 00:05:20Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 20, 2025
Dec 20, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1860 – South Carolina became the first state to attempt to secede from the United States with the South Carolina Declaration of Secession. Because this is the holiday season, I’ll not go off about how stupid this was. But, it was!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 20.
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Duration: 00:05:01Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 19, 2025
Dec 19, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1776 – Thomas Paine published one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled “The American Crisis,” using the pseudonym “Common Sense.” The first line reads: “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 19.
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Duration: 00:05:00Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 18, 2025
Dec 18, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1944 – The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States, supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States. Sounds eerily similar to what ICE and USNG are up to right now. It’s also theorized that George Lucas modeled Order 66 of the Republic after this, as it targets a single group of people. At least Roosevelt didn’t order extermination. Not that it didn’t happen.
... Duration: 00:05:23Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 17, 2025
Dec 17, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1989 – The Simpsons premiered on television with the episode “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” Many call The Simpsons an ’80s show. Technically, it is because they were conceived for the Tracy Ulman Show. But, this is the only full-length episode of the series to air in the 1980s. It wasn’t supposed to be the first episode, but something happened along the way for the intended episode (“Some Enchanted Evening”).
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 17.
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Duration: 00:06:23Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 16, 2025
Dec 16, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1773 – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped hundreds of crates of tea into Boston Harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. You could say that they had a “tea party.”
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 16.
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Duration: 00:04:10Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1903 – Italian American food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a patent for inventing a machine that makes ice cream cones. I scream!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 15.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1903 – The Wright brothers made their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. And, suck it, Ohio! They may have been from there. They may have designed it there. They may have built beta models there. But they DID it in North Carolina! (raspberry sounds)
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 14.
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Duration: 00:06:38Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 13, 2025
Dec 13, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1577 – Sir Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth, England, on his “round-the-world voyage.” Termed a ‘voyage of discovery,’ it was in effect an ambitious covert raiding voyage and the start of England’s challenge to the global domination of Spain and Portugal.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 13.
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Duration: 00:05:58Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1941 – Adolf Hitler declared the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery. This meeting is less well-known than the later Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. Hitler was such a piece of shhhhh… I can’t say that. Even if it’s Tru… I mean, true!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 12.
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Duration: 00:05:56Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took his last drink and entered treatment for the final time. That’s why the code words for AA are “Friends of Bill’s.”
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 11.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 10, 2025
Dec 10, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published. Just like Wikipedia and other “encyclopedias,” they aren’t used for legitimate sources, but should be used to find those legitimate resources.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 10.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 9, 2025
Dec 09, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1996 – Gwen Jacob was acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada. Thank you, Gwen Jacob.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 9.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 8, 2025
Dec 08, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 (the day prior) to be “a date which will live in infamy”, after which the U.S. declares war on Japan. This after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 8.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 7, 2025
Dec 07, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, was launched. After takeoff, and as the ship was leaving Earth, the crew took a photograph of the planet. This photo is now known as “The Blue Marble.”
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 7.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 6, 2025
Dec 06, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1492 – After exploring the island of Cuba (which he had mistaken for Japan) for gold, Christopher Columbus landed on an island he named Hispaniola. Today, Hispaniola comprises Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Columbus was such an ass.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 6.
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Duration: 00:07:29Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 5, 2025
Dec 05, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition in the United States. It was a very stupid “experiment” to begin with. Very. Stupid.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 5.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 4, 2025
Dec 04, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Now, I thought it was Lambda Lambda Lambda, you know, from Animal House? That’s a joke. But, there was an actual Tri-Lam that started in 2006 and isn’t restricted by race or even gender.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 4.
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Duration: 00:06:57Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 3, 2025
Dec 03, 2025Non-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. Why do I feel we are getting close to this again?
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 3.
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Duration: 00:08:17Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 2, 2025
Dec 02, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1845 – In a State of the Union message, President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. This is known today as “manifest destiny,” or obvious and inevitable. Aggressively we did, too.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 2.
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Duration: 00:08:03Beeswax Vinyl Daily — December 1, 2025
Dec 01, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for December 1.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 30, 2025
Nov 30, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1782 – The Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain signed preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). The agreement would later end the bickering between the two countries, albeit not without hiccups.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 30.
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Duration: 00:07:25Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 29, 2025
Nov 29, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1961 – Enos, a chimpanzee, was launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down off the coast of Puerto Rico. Enos was up there monkeying around!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 29.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 28, 2025
Nov 28, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub killed 492 people. What stands out to me is that there were 492 people in a nightclub. Sorry about the deaths but that’s a lot!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 28.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025Non-musical history for today: It’s Thanksgiving. Really, is there anything else to know? Have a happy one!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 27.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 26, 2025
Nov 26, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1476 – Vlad the Impaler defeated Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory. He became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. Vlad was not a vampire. The name “Dracul” means “song of the dragon,” which he obtained from his father because his father was installed as the head of the Order of the Dragon. He definitely employed some cruel tactics and served as a mere basis or inspiration for Bram Stoker’s titular character.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 26.
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Duration: 00:07:39Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1952 – Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London’s West End after a premiere in Nottingham. It is the longest continuously running play in history. It sits around 30,000 performances. The second-longest run of any performance in the West End is Les Mis , which sits at just over 15,000. On Broadway, Phantom of the Opera is in the mid-13,000s.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 25.
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Duration: 00:05:45Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 24, 2025
Nov 24, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1429 – During the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieged La Charité. I know I’ve talked a lot about her, but the commune of La Charité still stands and is known as La Charité-sur-Loire (Charity upon the Loire River). After the French Revolution, a highway was supposed to run through the church, but Prosper Mérimée, an inspector of monuments for France, deemed it worthy of saving. Mérimée wrote the novella Carmen, which turns this whole thing a bit musical. Georges Bizet took that novella and used it for his most famous op...
Duration: 00:07:00Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025Non-musical history for today: 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria became the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage. So, this, boys and girls, is why actors are called “thespians.” And now we know.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 23.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 22, 2025
Nov 22, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1718 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacked and boarded the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as “Blackbeard”) off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides included Maynard’s first officer, Mister Hyde, and Teach himself.
The shipwreck site is documented as North Carolina shipwreck site 31CR314 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The location is submerged in about 20 feet of water offshore from Fort Macon State Park in Atlantic Beach, NC.
And happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day to my brother, Reese!
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Duration: 00:07:12Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025Non-musical history for today: 2019 – Tesla launches the ridiculous SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the launch event when its “unbreakable” windows shatter during its demonstration. Yep. Sounds about right.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 21.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025Non-musical history for today: Well, what do you need to know? I was born 55 years ago today. Happy all that stuff to me!
But, because I feel I should give you something…
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who became the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London. She, of course, became Elizabeth II, and he, Prince Philip (still the Duke of Edinburgh).
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 20.
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Duration: 00:07:42Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The speech had only 271 words and was read in less than two minutes before approximately 15,000 people who had gathered to commemorate the sacrifice of the Union soldiers. Abe began with a reference to the Declaration of Independence of 1776:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
He went on, af...
Duration: 00:07:13Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1421 – A dike in the Grote Hollandse Waard in the Netherlands broke, killing about 10,000 people. It is/was known as St Elizabeth’s flood. Researching this, I found the (supposed) story of Beatrix de Rijke. A wicker cradle with an infant girl was washed away in the flood. Upon the cradle was also a cat. The morning after the flood, as the townspeople emerged to survey the damage, they saw this cradle floating, with the cat jumping from corner to corner to keep it balanced and upright. The baby was supposedly Beatrix de Rijke. The main muse...
Duration: 00:10:39Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1973 – In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.” And, according to Alex P. Keaton, he wasn’t. To most of the world, though, he was.
Also, today is a friend’s birthday. He doesn’t want anyone to know, even himself. So, if you know, don’t mention it to him.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 17.
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Duration: 00:06:09Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 16, 2025
Nov 16, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1849 – A Russian court sentenced writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence was later commuted to hard labor. He was literally in the firing line to be shot when the reprieve came in. He later described the experience he believed to be the last moments of his life in his novel The Idiot. In that story, a young man sentenced to death by firing squad was reprieved at the last moment, as recounted by the main character, Prince Myshkin, who describes the experience from the point of vie...
Duration: 00:06:17Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025Non-musical history for today: 2001 – Microsoft launched the Xbox game console in North America. To me, it was inferior to Sony’s PlayStation. That is, until the X|S series came out. I have the X. I love it. My boy got it for me for Christmas one year.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 15.
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Duration: 00:10:54Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, was published here in the USA. I don’t think I ever read it but I hear it’s a chore. But what I find the most interesting about this is that Melville was American. I thought for sure he was at least British. I don’t know a lot of American whaling stories. Oh well.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 14.
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Duration: 00:07:01Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025Non-musical history for today: 2015 – Islamic State operatives carried out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings, and a hostage crisis. The terrorists killed 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War. So, it’s somewhat musical because one of the locations affected was the Bataclan theatre, where the American band, Eagles of Death Metal, was playing. Luckily, none of the band was killed. Unluckily, about 90 people were, including the band’s merchandise table employee.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 13.
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Duration: 00:07:09Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 12, 2025
Nov 12, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident. The practice itself isn’t uncommon, but it is usually AFTER they have towed the carcass back into the ocean. The explosion threw whale flesh around 800 feet away, and its odor lingered for some time. Ick.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 12.
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Duration: 00:07:22Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 11, 2025
Nov 11, 2025Non-musical history for today: Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday here in the States. We observe annually on November 11 to honor military veterans of all branches. It coincides with holidays in several countries, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which also occur on the anniversary of the end of World War I.
Why this date? Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. At the urging of major U.S...
Duration: 00:07:03Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1898 – White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. To that I say this… F**K white supremacists!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 10.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 9, 2025
Nov 09, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1888 – Jack the Ripper murdered Mary Jane Kelly, his final victim in the Whitechapel murders. I find gruesome history fascinating. Especially the UK stuff. I’m such an Anglophile (AND Francophile).
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 9.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 8, 2025
Nov 08, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the X-ray. All his friends told him he needed to be more transparent because they could see right through this discovery! (boo hiss bah-DUH-buh)
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 8.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 7, 2025
Nov 07, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launched the world’s first internet radio broadcast. And now 31 years later, I have my own internet radio station. (see details below!)
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 7.
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Duration: 00:08:12Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 6, 2025
Nov 06, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announced that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore. They went from being one crappy team to becoming another. Pfft. Here we go, Steelers, here we go!!!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 6.
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Duration: 00:06:08Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 5, 2025
Nov 05, 2025Non-musical history for today:
A repost of the last few years… because I find it so interesting.
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes was arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason, and plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament
...
Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 4, 2025
Nov 04, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals. We lost Jane early last month.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 4.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 3, 2025
Nov 03, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1534 – English Parliament passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Henry VIII sure was a piece of work, thinking he was on par with some space fairy and having say over the church. Was he orange?
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 3.
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Duration: 00:09:06Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 2, 2025
Nov 02, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the result of the 1920 United States presidential election (Harding-Cox). And I know what you’re thinking… Hey! Stations east of the Mississippi River have “Ws” instead of “Ks.” But, KDKA happened to receive its assignment during a short period during which land stations were being issued call letters from a sequential block of “K” call letters that had previously been assigned only to ship stations. Although the original policy was restored a few months later, KDKA was permitted to ke...
Duration: 00:09:38Beeswax Vinyl Daily — November 1, 2025
Nov 01, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appeared in National Geographic magazine for the first time. I looked at a lot of National Geographic when I was a wee dude.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 1.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 31, 2025
Oct 31, 2025Non-musical history for today: There’s something about today. I can’t quite put my finger on it. But, I have a hankering for some candy and in the mood for cheesy horror films. Hmmm…
Happy Halloween, y’all!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 31.
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Duration: 00:07:41Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1938 – Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States. I heard it (and of it) the first time in the sixth grade. My teacher told us about how it was used and how people freaked out. People were gullible back then. Or now. Just according to how you look at it.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 30.
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Duration: 00:11:11Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 29, 2025
Oct 29, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1929 – Black Tuesday. The day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. Every day, it feels like we are approaching another one.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 29.
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Duration: 00:07:58Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony voted to establish a theological college. That college went on to become Harvard University.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 28.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025Non-musical history for today: 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous “Vision of the Cross.” It is commonly understood that on that evening, with the armies preparing for battle, Constantine had a vision which led him to fight under the protection of the Christian God. Some details of that vision, however, differ between the sources reporting it.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 27.
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Duration: 00:08:12Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1881 – Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participated in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Despite its name, the gunfight did not take place within or even next to the O.K. Corral. Instead, the shootout actually took place in a narrow lot on the side of C. S. Fly’s photography studio, about six doors west of the O.K. Corral’s rear entrance. Who’s your huckleberry now!?
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 26.
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Duration: 00:06:59Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 25, 2025
Oct 25, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1944 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. It was in direct response to the Hitler Youth movement.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 25.
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Duration: 00:10:10Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1900 – The U.S. Government announced plans to buy the Danish West Indies for $7 million. The islands of St Thomas, St John, and St Croix were purchased. You know them today as the United States Virgin Islands.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 24.
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Duration: 00:09:26Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1958 – Belgian artist Peyo’s comic characters, the Smurfs, made their debut in Spirou magazine. Yes, you read that correctly. The Smurfs weren’t an ’80s creation, even though that’s when we Americans discovered them.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 23.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 22, 2025
Oct 22, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opened with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust. This was accurately portrayed in the historical fiction television show, Gilded Age, which, if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 22.
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Duration: 00:09:07Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 21, 2025
Oct 21, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1973 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams became the first (and only) player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. Several teams have had two safeties in the same game, but Fred did both in his game against the Packers. The Rams, incidentally, are the only team to have THREE safeties in the same game and that happened 11 years later, in 1984 against the New York Giants. Oh yeah… and Fred Dryer was Hunter in the NBC show, Hunter.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 21.
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Duration: 00:08:17Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 20, 2025
Oct 20, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1947 – Cold War: The House Un-American Activities Committee began its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevented some from working in the industry for years. The Hollywood Ten (directors/screenwriters and such) were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo was able to break out of the blacklisting in 1960, somehow. But the others never quite regained their footing. Remember kids, having communist ideas, or even sympathy, doesn’t make you “un-American” or “anti...
Duration: 00:08:44Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 19, 2025
Oct 19, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1953 – Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published. If you know me, you know I’m not a fan of reading. It’s a waste of my time that I could be doing something else. ADD and all that. But I did read this book. And, I enjoyed it. “It’s a pleasure to burn.”
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 19.
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Duration: 00:08:00Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 18, 2025
Oct 18, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery. She is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England was the first published book of African-American poetry, male or female.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 18.
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Duration: 00:09:39Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 17, 2025
Oct 17, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1965 – The 1964–65 New York World’s Fair closed after two years. The expo attracted more than 51 million attendees. It included exhibitions, activities, performances, films, art, and food presented by 80 nations, 24 U.S. states, and nearly 350 American companies. There are still World’s Fairs, but the internet (and global politics) has rendered them pretty much afterthoughts.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 17.
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Duration: 00:08:38Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1384 – Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland. Why is that important or noteworthy? Well, Jadwiga is a great name. Also, Jadwiga was a woman.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 16.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1888 – The “From Hell” letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper was received by investigators. It was sent along with half of a human kidney. Of the thousands of letters claiming to be from “Jack,” this was one of the few that were considered seriously. Of course, it’s one of the greatest mysteries of the past few centuries and no one knows who the kidney came from, who sent it, or who Jack was. Fascinating.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 15.
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Duration: 00:08:41Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England. I don’t think it went very well.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 14.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 13, 2025
Oct 13, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1269 – The present church building at Westminster Abbey was consecrated. It was once called the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster and before the current building the original location was founded in 959 AD. 130 years, to-the-day, after the consecration, the Abbey was the location of Henry IV’s coronation.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 13.
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Duration: 00:07:39Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 12, 2025
Oct 12, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1773 – America’s first insane asylum opened. The original building burned in the mid-1980s but it was rebuilt. The national insane asylum, I believe, is now located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 12.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 11, 2025
Oct 11, 2025Non-musical history for today: XX years ago (and no that is NOT 20) my sister, Leah, was born.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 11.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 10, 2025
Oct 10, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, was discovered by English astronomer William Lassell. I guess it’s appropriate considering Neptune was the Roman god of the sea and the pitchfork-like staff of his was called a triton.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 10.
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Duration: 00:09:19Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 9, 2025
Oct 09, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. Did you know he was a chess enthusiast and could recite Rudyard Kipling’s If? You do now!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 9.
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Duration: 00:08:04Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 8, 2025
Oct 08, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1956 – The New York Yankees’ Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series. To achieve a perfect game, a team must not allow any opposing player to reach base by any means: no hits, walks, hit batsmen, catcher’s interference, fielder’s obstruction, and no fielding error, or uncaught third strike that allows a batter to reach base. At this point, that perfect game was only the sixth ever.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 8.
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Duration: 00:07:41Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 7, 2025
Oct 07, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed. It lasted until 1990, when the Wall fell and Berlin (and Germany) were reunified.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 7.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 6, 2025
Oct 06, 2025Non-musical history for today: 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, was founded. Instagram began its existence as Burbn, a mobile check-in app created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. They thought it was too much like Foursquare and switched to a photo-sharing app. It’s now, of course, owned by Meta (or Facebook)
It would have been my grandfather’s birthday and is my nephew’s birthday today. Happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day!!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 6.
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Duration: 00:07:36Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 5, 2025
Oct 05, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was founded. A lot of Muppets, sweaters, trollies, and other liberal loveliness happening there. Hey! You guys!
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 5.
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Beeswax Vinyl Daily — October 4, 2025
Oct 04, 2025Non-musical history for today: 1883 – The Orient Express made its first run. To my knowledge, no murders had happened on it, yet.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 4.
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