Dookie is the third studio album by the American rock band Green Day, released on February 1, 1994, by Reprise Records. The band's major label debut, it was recorded in mid-1993 and is heavily based around frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's personal experiences, with themes such as boredom, anxiety, relationships, and sexuality. After several years of grunge's dominance in popular music, the album brought a livelier, more melodic rock sound to the mainstream. Considered one of the defining albums of the 1990s and punk rock in general, Dookie was also pivotal in solidifying the genre's mainstream popularity. The album influenced a new wave of pop-punk bands, such as Blink-182, Sum 41, and Fall Out Boy. Though the band was labeled a sell-out by some of the band's original fans, the record received critical acclaim upon its release and won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1995.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dookie

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1959:

Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500

1974:

Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but was killed by police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck

2019:

A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

blight: 1. (transitive) 2. (phytopathology) To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast, to mildew, to smut. 3. (by extension, pathology, dated) To affect (a body part) with a disease. 4. (figurative) To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil. 5. (intransitive) Of a plant: to suffer blight (noun sense 1.1). 6. (phytopathology) 7. A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut. 8. The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus; also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees. 9. (by extension) 10. A state of cloudy, humid weather. 11. (pathology, dated) A diseased condition of the face or skin; specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold. 12. (figurative) 13. Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life. 14. (specifically) A rundown and unsightly condition of an urban area; also, such an area. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blight

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished, that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce, would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; that the swords might be turned into plough-shares, the spears into pruning hooks, and, as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more."   --George Washington https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington