Dogearing today’s page in the history books, today English King Æthelred the Second ordered all Danish peoples living in England be executed “Like weeds in the wheat” following frequent Danish raids, Bloody Sunday, the first Bloody Sunday that is, occurred in central London around protests over unemployment and interference in Ireland, and a 150-mph tropical cyclone killed an estimated 500,000 people in just one night! Plus birthdays for author Robert Louis Stevenson, Whoopi Goldberg, Kamahl, and American singer-songwriter Cass McCombs.

Today’s Track:

Cass McCombs – I Followed The River South To What