The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by the American
singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia
Records. Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are original
compositions by Dylan. The album opens with "Blowin' in the Wind", which
would become one of the anthems of the 1960s, and several other songs
which came to be regarded as amongst Dylan's best compositions and
classics of the 1960s folk scene: "Girl from the North Country",
"Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't
Think Twice,
It's All Right". Dylan's lyrics embraced stories ripped from the
headlines about civil rights and he articulated anxieties about the fear
of nuclear warfare. Balancing this political material were love songs,
sometimes bitter and accusatory, and material that features surreal
humor. Freewheelin' showcased Dylan's songwriting talent for the first
time, propelling him to national and international fame. The album
reached number 22 in the US (eventually going platinum), and later
became a number 1 hit in the UK. In 2003, the album was ranked number
97 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all
time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin%27_Bob_Dylan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1199:
John, who would posthumously become known as one of the most
reviled Kings of England, was crowned.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England>
1703:
Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after
reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Saint_Petersburg>
1919:
The Curtiss NC-4 flying boat arrived in Lisbon, Portugal,
becoming the first fixed-wing aircraft to complete a transatlantic
flight under its own power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_NC-4>
1967:
Australians overwhelmingly approved two amendments to the
Australian Constitution granting the government the power to make laws
to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national
census.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_(Aboriginals)>
1995:
American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse,
leaving him a quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of
people with spinal cord injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
antaphrodisiac:
Capable of reducing the sex drive.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antaphrodisiac>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye
without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
--Henry Kissinger
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger>