It was on this day in 1995 that the Grateful Dead played their last concert. I was in the parking lot of Solider’s Field that afternoon, having seen the band play the night before. There were tickets available, but the show I just saw was only so-so and I had to work the next day and well, you know how that goes. I told myself “There’s always next time.” But as it turned out, there actually wasn’t…
The first event that Wiki takes note of occurring on this day is “455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire” and the most recent is “2006 – At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.“
It was also on this day in 1868 that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. This guaranteed citizenship to former slaves and their decedents, and insured that all persons receive due process of law.
Happy birthday to Fred Savage, Pamela Adlon, Courtney Love, Tom Hanks, Richard Roundtree, and Dean Koontz.
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