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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for September 6th President William McKinley shot in Buffalo, N.Y.; Funeral held for Britain’s Princess Diana; Mother Teresa mourned in India; Movie director Akira Kurosawa dies; Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame born. Breakfast Tunes ROGER SPRUNG American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame VIDEO Something to …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for August 30th The Civil War’s Second Battle of Bull Run ends; Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first black Supreme Court justice; First black astronaut blasts off; Ty Cobb’s baseball debut; David Letterman moves to CBS. Breakfast Tune Sailing Roger Sprung, Hal Wylie, & the Progressive Bluegrassers …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for August 23rd Nazis and Soviets sign a non-aggression pact on eve of World War II; Sacco and Vanzetti executed; Defrocked priest John Geoghan killed; Movie star Rudolph Valentino and Broadway’s Oscar Hammerstein die. Breakfast Tune Back in the Chain Gang – The Pretenders – Banjo …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for August 16th Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n’ Roll, dies at Graceland; Baseball’s Babe Ruth dies in New York; Uganda’s Idi Amin dies in Saudi Arabia; ‘Sports Illustrated’ hits newsstands; Singer Madonna born. Breakfast Tune Demolition String Band “Like A Prayer” by Madonna. Westport, …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for August 9th The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan; President Richard Nixon resigns; Charles Manson cult murders actress Sharon Tate and four others; Singer Whitney Houston born; Musician Jerry Garcia dies. Breakfast Tune We Banjo 3 – “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” (Whitney …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for August 2nd The Tonkin Gulf incident sparks U.S. escalation of the Vietnam War; Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invades Kuwait; JFK’s PT-109 boat sunk; President Warren G. Harding dies; ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok killed in Deadwood. Breakfast Tune The Worst is Yet to Come – Keb Mo – …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for July 26th President Harry Truman orders desegregation of U.S. Military; Cuba’s Fidel Castro attacks Moncada barracks; Argentina’s Eva Peron dies; Playwright George Bernard Shaw and rock star Mick Jagger born. Breakfast Tune Don’t cry for me Argentina – Banjo Something to think about, Breakfast News …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for July 19th Women’s rights activists meet at Seneca Falls; The ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on gays in the U.S. military; Apollo 11 enters lunar orbit; Baseball’s Pete Rose gets jail time; Moscow Olympics begins. Breakfast Tune Folsom prison blues bluegrass Banjo (Solo Part) Something …

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AP’s Today in History for July 12 Julius Caesar born; Walter Mondale taps Geraldine Ferraro as the first woman to run on a major party ticket for the White House; Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party; Oscar Hammerstein born. Breakfast Tune Hide Head Blues (banjo cover) Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs …

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Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for July 5th Elvis Presley holds his first major recording session; Birth of the bikini; Enron’s Kenneth Lay dies; Arthur Ashe wins at Wimbledon; Larry Doby follows Jackie Robinson; Baseball’s Ted Williams dies. Breakfast Tune Happy 4th of July from the Tony Trischka School of Banjo …

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