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This Day in Reggae
and Nubian, Rasta, herb and related history
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| December 4 |
| 1969: | The Overdrivers record "Pack Up Your Things And Go" (a.k.a. "Selassie Want Us To Go Back Home" for Lloyd Daley, The Matador. It can be heard on a CD "From Matador's Arena - 1969-1970 - Volume 2" (Jamaican Gold JMC 200.233). |
| 1975: | Lutan Fyah (Anthony Martin) is born in Spanish Town, Saint Catherinem Jamaica. |
| 1999: | A Bob Marley Tribute concert, One Love: The Bob Marley All Star Tribute, takes place at the James Bond Beach in Oracabessa, St. Mary, Jamaica. |
| December 5 |
| 1933: | U.S. alcohol prohibition ends.It ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
| 1955: | Montgomery Bus Boycott starts.The 45,000 African-American citizens of Montgomery organized car-pools or walked instead of riding on the buses and elected Martin Luther King as president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. Many were arrested or violently harrassed, and the home of King was bombed. Finally the boycott, which was intended to last only one day and which brought national recognition to the movement and King, ended after 382 days, when Montgomery followed a Supreme Court decision and integrated the buses. |
| 1965: | Wayne Smith is born Ian Flemmings Smith in Kingston, Jamaica, aged 48. |
| 1966: | Singer Richie Stephens (Richard Anthony Stevenson) is born in Westmore, Jamaica. |
| 1976: | Smile Jamaica Concert is held at National Heroes Park in Kingston, JamaicaBob and Rita Marley perform with bandage after being wounded in an assassination attempt two days before. |
| 1985: | "Under Me Sleng Teng" is cut at Prince Jammy's studio at 38 St. Lucia Road, Kingston, Jamaica.It is the first full digital reggae recording, so launching ragga stage of reggae. |
| December 6 |
| 1865: | U.S. 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is ratified. |
| 1961: | Franz Omar Fanon, psychoanalyst and social philosopher, passes away in Washington, D.C., USA. Age 36. (b. July 20, 1925) |
| 1970: | Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg [Ace Of Base] is born. |
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© Jah Itagaki
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