Tell All Your Friends is the debut studio album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday, released on March 26, 2002, through Victory Records. Forming in 1999, the group underwent several line-up changes before settling on vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist and vocalist John Nolan (pictured), guitarist Eddie Reyes, bassist Shaun Cooper, and drummer Mark O'Connell. They recorded the album with producer Sal Villanueva at Big Blue Meenie Recording Studio in New Jersey. After the release, they promoted it with various tours of the US alongside Brand New and the Used. Nolan and Cooper then left the group in 2003 and were replaced by Fred Mascherino and Matt Rubano, respectively. Soon afterwards, they went on a co-headlining tour with Saves the Day to close out the year. The album is the longest-running release of Victory Records on the US Billboard magazine's Heatseekers and Independent Albums charts at 68 and 78 weeks, respectively. Certified gold in the US, it has sold a million copies worldwide.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1873:

A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning the Aceh War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh_War

1896:

An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mine_disaster

1917:

First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Gaza

1953:

Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

nonplussed: 1. Unsure how to act or respond; bewildered, perplexed. 2. (chiefly US, informal, nonstandard) Unaffected, unfazed; unimpressed. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonplussed

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.   --A. E. Housman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._E._Housman