Today is Emancipation Day, a public holiday in most English-speaking Caribbean nations. It marks the end of slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1834.
Today is the birthday, in 1942, of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia also founded a variety of side projects, including the Saunders–Garcia Band, the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, Legion of Mary, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. He also did a bit of art – I own a number of Jerry Garcia ties.
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