Dookie is the third studio album by the American rock band Green Day,
released on February 1, 1994, by Reprise Records. The band's major
label debut, it was recorded in mid-1993 and is heavily based around
frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's personal experiences, with themes such
as boredom, anxiety, relationships, and sexuality. After several years
of grunge's dominance in popular music, the album brought a livelier,
more melodic rock sound to the mainstream. Considered one of the
defining albums of the 1990s and punk rock in general, Dookie was also
pivotal in solidifying the genre's mainstream popularity. The album
influenced a new wave of pop-punk bands, such as Blink-182, Sum 41, and
Fall Out Boy. Though the band was labeled a sell-out by some of the
band's original fans, the record received critical acclaim upon its
release and won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1995.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dookie>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1959:
Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the
Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500>
1974:
Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at
Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of
crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but was
killed by police.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck>
2019:
A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and stole
several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blight:
1. (transitive)
2. (phytopathology) To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with
a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast,
to mildew, to smut.
3. (by extension, pathology, dated) To affect (a body part) with a
disease.
4. (figurative) To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of
life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.
5. (intransitive) Of a plant: to suffer blight (noun sense 1.1).
6. (phytopathology)
7. A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete
and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as
floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a
fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut.
8. The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be
airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus;
also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees.
9. (by extension)
10. A state of cloudy, humid weather.
11. (pathology, dated) A diseased condition of the face or skin;
specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin
rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold.
12. (figurative)
13. Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other
aspect of life.
14. (specifically) A rundown and unsightly condition of an urban area;
also, such an area.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blight>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished, that the
manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce,
would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; that the
swords might be turned into plough-shares, the spears into pruning
hooks, and, as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no
more."
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>