Non-musical history for today: 1963 – The first push-button telephone went into service. For those born after, say 1999, a push-button telephone was a blockish apparatus that you actually talked into to communicate with someone else verbally. You would “dial” their “phone number” with push buttons that were not only adorned with numbers but letters (at the time, no “Q” and no “Z”) and you could spell words in phone numbers. Before that, “telephones” used a “rotary” dial that you had to spin with a finger (or pencil or pen). The distance you spun would determine the number you meant to dial. It could be slightly inaccurate if you didn’t go all the way to the catch.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 18.
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