September 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1620	Mayflower starts its voyage to the North America	The Shins	Young Pilgrims	Chutes Too Narrow
2	1831	The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.	Stillwell	The Bull Starts Here	Don't Face a Problem...Burn It
3	1916	World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.	The Constantines	Tank Commander	Shine a Light
4	1947	RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.	Piebald	Vacuum	Barely Legal
5	1959	Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.	Electronic	Soviet	Electronic
6	1966	U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.	The Pixies	There Goes My Gun	Doolittle
7.	1981	The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.	The Kinks	Last of the Steam-powered Trains	The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society

(Historical facts about September 15 are from Wikipedia)