Grunge music is an independent-rooted music genre that was inspired by hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock. The genre became commercially successful in the late 1980s and early 1990s, peaking in mainstream popularity between 1991 and 1994. Bands from cities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest such as Seattle, Washington, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, were responsible for creating grunge music and later made it popular with mainstream audiences. The genre is closely associated with Generation X, due to its popularization being in tandem with the popularizing of the generation's name. The popularity of grunge was one of the first phenomena that distinguished the popular music of the 1990s from that of the 1980s.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1806: The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved when Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, was forced to abdicate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire)
1890: William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electric_chair)
1945: World War II: Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Force, dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 80,000 people instantly. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki)
1991: Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his idea for a "World Wide Web." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee)
2001: U.S. President George W. Bush received a daily briefing warning of an imminent attack by Osama bin Laden. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Daily_Briefing)
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"The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower)
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