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Image 1 — May 13, 1985 - Dire Straits release their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms, on Vergo Records...

Image 2 — May 13, 1985 - Dire Straits release their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms, on Vergo Records...

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May 13, 1985 - Dire Straits release their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms, on Vergo Records...

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/dire-straits-brothers-in-arms-album/

u/CrystalEise — 4 hours ago

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May 13, 1968 - Lumpy Gravy (official release #3), the debut solo album by Frank Zappa (with the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra), is released on the Verve label...

https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/lumpy-gravy/#/

u/CrystalEise — 4 hours ago

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May 13, 1862 – US Civil War: Confederate steamer Planter, with her captain ashore in Charleston, was taken out of the harbor by Robert Smalls, a southern slave, and turned over to U.S.S. Onward, Acting Lieutenant Nickels, of the blockading Union squadron...

Later Robert Smalls was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thrilling-tale-how-robert-smalls-heroically-sailed-stolen-confederate-ship-freedom-180963689

u/CrystalEise — 4 hours ago

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May 12, 1971 - The self titled, debut studio album by the jazz-fusion band Weather Report is released by Columbia Records...

https://www.weatherreportdiscography.org/weather-report-1971

u/CrystalEise — 1 day ago

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May 12, 1967 - Are You Experienced, the debut studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, is released in the UK on the Track label...

https://genius.com/albums/The-jimi-hendrix-experience/Are-you-experienced-us-version

u/CrystalEise — 1 day ago

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May 12, 1963 - Bob Dylan walked out of dress rehearsals for The Ed Sullivan Show when CBS censors told him he could not perform Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues...

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-12/bob-dylan-walks-out-on-the-ed-sullivan-show

u/CrystalEise — 1 day ago

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May 12, 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism...

https://www.nps.gov/cali/learn/historyculture/donner-reed-party.htm

u/CrystalEise — 1 day ago

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May 12, 1777 - First ice cream advertisement in America! (New York Gazette)...

https://www.famousdaily.com/history/first-ice-cream-ad-appears.html

u/CrystalEise — 1 day ago

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May 11, 1981 - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More & Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, a series of guitar solo albums by Frank Zappa, are originally released as mail-order, individual albums through Barking Pumpkin...

They were subsequently reissued as a triple album box set in 1982...

https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/shut-n-play-yer-guitar/#/

u/CrystalEise — 2 days ago

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May 11, 1981 - Frank Zappa's live double album, Tinsel Town Rebellion is released on the Barking Pumpkin label...

https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/tinseltown-rebellion

u/CrystalEise — 2 days ago

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May 11, 1969 - Chick Corea records his album "Is" at the Bell Sound Studios in New York City...

https://differentperspectivesinmyroom.blogspot.com/2015/03/chick-corea-is-lp-1969-solid-state.html

u/CrystalEise — 2 days ago

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May 11, 1969 - British comedy troupe Monty Python forms, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin...

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/05/11/on-this-day-monty-python

u/CrystalEise — 2 days ago

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May 11, 1956 - In order to fulfill contractual obligations with Prestige Records, Miles Davis and his band; John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones, go into the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and record enough material for three albums...

https://www.allmusic.com/album/workin-with-the-miles-davis-quintet-mw0000649474

u/CrystalEise — 2 days ago

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May 11, 1910 - Montana's Glacier National Park forms...

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/melting-crown-continent-visual-history-glacier-national-park

u/CrystalEise — 2 days ago

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May 10, 1972 - Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick is released in the US...

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/jethro-tull/thick-as-a-brick-32/

u/CrystalEise — 3 days ago

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May 10, 1969 - Flo & Eddie (The Turtles) play Tricia Nixon's party at the White House...

https://www.audacy.com/wwl/news/the-real-story-60s-rock-band-the-turtles-at-the-white-house

u/CrystalEise — 3 days ago

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May 10, 1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform two shows at the Fillmore East in New York City, with support from Sly & the Family Stone and the Joshua Light Show...

https://www.jimihendrix.com/encyclopedia-item/may-10-1968-the-experience-perform-two-shows-at-the-fillmore-east-in-new-york-city-with-support-from-sly-the-family-stone-and-the-joshua-light-show

u/CrystalEise — 3 days ago

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May 10, 1965 - The Bob James Trio record their album, Explosions, at Bell Sound Studios in New York City...

http://www.espdisk.com/1009.html

u/CrystalEise — 3 days ago

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May 10, 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/golden-spike-marks-transcontinental-breakthrough-may-10-1869-572411

u/CrystalEise — 3 days ago

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May 10, 1865 - US Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis (disguised as a woman) is captured by Union troops at Irwinsville, Georgia...

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-10/jefferson-davis-captured

u/CrystalEise — 3 days ago

u/CrystalEise

May 13, 1985 - Dire Straits release their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms, on Vergo Records...

May 13, 1968 - Lumpy Gravy (official release #3), the debut solo album by Frank Zappa (with the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra), is released on the Verve label...

May 13, 1862 – US Civil War: Confederate steamer Planter, with her captain ashore in Charleston, was taken out of the harbor by Robert Smalls, a southern slave, and turned over to U.S.S. Onward, Acting Lieutenant Nickels, of the blockading Union squadron...

May 12, 1971 - The self titled, debut studio album by the jazz-fusion band Weather Report is released by Columbia Records...

May 12, 1967 - Are You Experienced, the debut studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, is released in the UK on the Track label...

May 12, 1963 - Bob Dylan walked out of dress rehearsals for The Ed Sullivan Show when CBS censors told him he could not perform Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues...

May 12, 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism...

May 12, 1777 - First ice cream advertisement in America! (New York Gazette)...

May 11, 1981 - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More &amp; Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, a series of guitar solo albums by Frank Zappa, are originally released as mail-order, individual albums through Barking Pumpkin...

May 11, 1981 - Frank Zappa's live double album, Tinsel Town Rebellion is released on the Barking Pumpkin label...

May 11, 1969 - Chick Corea records his album "Is" at the Bell Sound Studios in New York City...

May 11, 1969 - British comedy troupe Monty Python forms, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin...

May 11, 1956 - In order to fulfill contractual obligations with Prestige Records, Miles Davis and his band; John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers &amp; Philly Joe Jones, go into the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and record enough material for three albums...

May 11, 1910 - Montana's Glacier National Park forms...

May 10, 1972 - Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick is released in the US...

May 10, 1969 - Flo &amp; Eddie (The Turtles) play Tricia Nixon's party at the White House...

May 10, 1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform two shows at the Fillmore East in New York City, with support from Sly &amp; the Family Stone and the Joshua Light Show...

May 10, 1965 - The Bob James Trio record their album, Explosions, at Bell Sound Studios in New York City...

May 10, 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike...

May 10, 1865 - US Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis (disguised as a woman) is captured by Union troops at Irwinsville, Georgia...

May 11, 1981 - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More & Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, a series of guitar solo albums by Frank Zappa, are originally released as mail-order, individual albums through Barking Pumpkin...

May 11, 1956 - In order to fulfill contractual obligations with Prestige Records, Miles Davis and his band; John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones, go into the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and record enough material for three albums...

May 10, 1969 - Flo & Eddie (The Turtles) play Tricia Nixon's party at the White House...

May 10, 1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform two shows at the Fillmore East in New York City, with support from Sly & the Family Stone and the Joshua Light Show...