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Non-musical history for today: 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement. Some sources have questioned this, alleging instead that the execution was carried out by officers Aldo Lampredi or Michele Moretti or other partisans who were with him, by British SOE officers, by the vice-commander of the CVL (Italian Resistance), Luigi Longo, or that Mussolini and Petacci committed suicide with cyanide capsules. Either way, ding dong… Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 28. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1978 – In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers were killed when a cooling tower under construction collapsed at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia. The usual method of scaffold construction has the base of the scaffold built on the ground, with the top raised to match the height of the tower. The scaffolding on the Willow Island cooling tower was bolted to the structure it was being used to build. A layer of concrete was poured; then, after the concrete forms were removed, the scaffolding was raised and bolted onto the new section. Well, on the morning of the collapse, concrete and scaffolding began to peel away from the top of the tower, first counter-clockwise, then in both directions. A jumble of concrete, wooden forms, metal scaffolding, and construction workers fell into the hollow center of the tower. On June 8, 1978, OSHA cited Willow Island contractors for 20 violations, including failures to field-test concrete and to properly anchor the scaffold system. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 27. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1865 – Union cavalry troopers cornered and shot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia. Booth and his “companion,” David Herold, made it nearly two weeks past Abe’s assassination. They were finally found at the Garrett Farm just outside of Port Royal. Herold surrendered when Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty, Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger, and their troop finally cornered the perps, but Booth wanted to fight. The troops set the barn he was in on fire, and Sergeant Boston Corbett shot Booth, saying that Booth had raised his gun. There are conflicting accounts of this. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 26. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1960 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. It remained entirely submerged for 60 days, 21 hours, only rising to periscope depth for navigation/ventilation and once to pass a sick sailor to the USS Macon, without breaking the “submerged” status. Impressive, but man, I bet those sailors were in dire want of sunlight. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 25. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. I know this is musical, but the show, Annie Get Your Gun, was based on Oakley. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 24. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1985 – Coca-Cola changed its formula and released New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months. It was a day that will live in pop culture infamy. It was like less-good-Pepsi. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 23. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: First held on April 22, 1970, Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday.org. Current US administration would love to abolish that. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 22. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 753 BC – Romulus founded Rome. Supposedly, he and his twin brother Remus were suckled by a she-wolf and the land on which Rome was formed was occupied 10,000+ years ago. More Roman mythology… or was it? Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 21. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich met often at the Louis Pasteur statue outside of their high school in San Rafael, California. Their designated meeting time was 4:20pm. Their mission, follow a map (which never led them to their bounty) to find an herbal crop they couldn’t locate. 4:20 Louis was eventually shortened to 420 and that’s where the weed culture reference comes from. Puff, puff, pass! Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 20. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco. She was America’s Princess. She had a stroke whilst driving in 1982 and ran over a cliff. At first, it seemed she would make a full recovery until another hemorrhage came along. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 19. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1909 – Joan of Arc was beatified in Rome. I had to look up beatified. It means to be posthumously “blessed” by the church. I mean, only 478 years after she was burned at the stake. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 18. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1961 – A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. Um. It didn’t work. This led to where we are now regarding Cuba, albeit with a fluid relationship over the years. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 17. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fought his last gun battle. Bartholomew Masterson was actually born in Canada before moving as a teen to hunt the Great Plains along with his dad. He was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 16. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1892 – The General Electric Company was formed. General Electric was formed through the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, with the support of Drexel, Morgan & Co. GE was directly responsible for the formation of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and, through RCA, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). NBC had two versions, NBC Red (which we still know as NBC) and NBC Blue (which was succeeded by American Broadcasting Corporation, or ABC). Whilst the brand was known for quality, it seems to me that now, it’s just light bulbs and crappy home appliances. I mean, that’s what I think of. Not saying that’s it. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 15. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today

Non-musical history for today: 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the following day. Abe and his wife were watching the play, Tom Taylor’s “Our American Cousin.” It reminds me of the joke, and not to make light of the death of President Lincoln, “other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?” I’ll see myself out now. Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 14. Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza. Leave comments at [email protected] or 336-422-NUMB (6862). Tune into Camel City Radio via the app (for iOS and Android), Alexa, or Audacy. On Camel City Radio, it’s hump day every day! Note: This link will expire a year from today