Dookie is the third studio album and major label debut by American punk rock band Green Day. The album was the band's first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo. Released on February 1 1994 through Reprise Records, Dookie became a worldwide commercial success, reaching #2 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and charting in seven countries. The album helped to propel Green Day into mainstream popularity, amid claims from the punk rock community that the band had "sold out". Dookie produced five hit singles for the band: "Longview", the re-recorded "Welcome to Paradise", "Basket Case", the radio-only single "She" and "When I Come Around". As of 2007, Dookie is the band's best-selling album, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. It is Green Day's only diamond album. Dookie won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1995.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1536: An expedition to the New World led by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founded what is now Buenos Aires, Argentina. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires)

1709: Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after spending four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk)

1848: The Mexican–American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, granting the United States the Mexican Cession. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo)

1925: Medical supplies to combat an outbreak of diphtheria reached Nome, Alaska Territory on dog sleds after a five and a half-day journey, inspiring the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race (pictured in 2003) across Alaska. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_serum_run_to_Nome)

1943: World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in human history, concluded with 91,000 tired and starving German soldiers taken captive by the Soviet Red Army. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad)

_____________________ Wiktionary's Word of the day:

polysemous: (linguistics) Having multiple meanings or interpretations. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/polysemous)

_____________________ Wikiquote of the day:

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. -- James Joyce in Ulysses (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Joyce)