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Released 49 years ago
Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" b/w "Baby You're So Repulsive"

In November of 1976, this debut single by the San Francisco band was the first punk rock single to emerge from the U.S. West Coast

45 years ago today
Guitarist Viv Altertine, vocalist Ari Up, drummer Budgie and bassist Tessa Pollitt of The Slits perform on stage at The Channel in Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 1980

📸 Michael Grecco

44 years ago today
Prince Charming is the third album by Adam and the Ants, released on this day in 1981, featuring the singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming" as well as "Ant Rap"

Keeping up. The 19th century was also a great time of acceleration.
What was going to be native lands west of the Mississippi river, at one time, was now rapidly being divided and subdivided into states and territories.
This Colton map was published c. 1855, but an owner tried to keep up with the changes in the 1860's and brushed in the new Colorado & Dakota territories.