| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1609 | Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers | Nada Surf | Telescope | Karmic |
| 2. | 1768 | James Cook begins his first voyage. | Quasi | Bon Voyage | Field Studies |
| 3. | 1825 | Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil. | New Order | Leave Me Alone | Power, Corruption & Lies |
| 4. | 1835 | The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax. | The Magnetic Fields | Alien Being | House of Tomorrow |
| 5. | 1894 | Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. | !!! | The Dis-ease | The Dis-ease/The Funky Branca |
| 6. | 1910 | Yellow Cab is founded. | Make Believe | Can't Tell Cop from Cab | Shock of Being |
| 7. | 1944 | World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. | Aloha | Liberty | That's Your Fire |
| 8. | 1989 | Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System. | Jimi Hendrix | Valleys of Neptune | Valleys of Neptune |
(Historical facts about August 25 are from Wikipedia)
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