October 31

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1517	Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.	Impact Unit	Complain	My Friend the Pit
2.	1913	Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.	Convocation of …	Highway	Convocation of …
3.	1926	Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.	Utopia	Gangrene	Oops Wrong Planet
4.	1941	After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.	Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo	Retired Grocer Constructs Tiny Mount Rushmore Entirely of Cheese	Strange But True
5.	1996	Tomb Raider is released for the first time, being credited as the first 3D action-adventure game.	DJ Fresh	Tomb Raider	FabricLive 18
6.	N/A	Halloween (Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, United States and other places)	The Misfits	Halloween	12 Hits From Hell
7.	N/A	Samhain in the northern hemisphere, Beltane in the southern hemisphere; begins on sunset of October 31 (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagans)	Samhain	Initium & Samhain	Initium

(Historical facts about October 31 are from Wikipedia.)

October 30

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1501	Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.	Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Marion Hutton	The Chestnut Tree	The Great Glenn Miller
2.	1864	Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".	Unwed Sailor	Golden Cities	The Faithful Anchor
3.	1894	Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.	On!Air!Library	Bread	On!Air!Library
4.	1938	Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.	Prefuse 73	Radio Attack (Pt2-Re-Edit)	Urban Renewal Program
5.	1945	Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.	Os Mutantes	Tecnicolor	Tecnicolor
6.	1961	Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.	The Animals	Bury My Body	Best of the Animals
7.	N/A	Mischief Night (United States) Devil's Night (Michigan)	The Traveling Wilburys	The Devil's Busy	Traveling Wilburys Complete Collection

(Historical facts about October 30 are from Wikipedia.)

October 29

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Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1675	Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.	Pet Shop Boys	Integral	Fundamental
2.	1886	The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.	Cat Power	Shaking Paper	You are Free
3.	1921	The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.	Cubismo Grafico	Upsetters	Escalator Records, Tokyo
4.	1969	The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.	Le Tigre	Get off the Internet	From the Desk of Mr. Lady
5.	1998	Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.	Ani Difrance & Radiohead	Astronaut

(Historical facts about October 29 are from Wikipedia.)

October 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1886	In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.	The Descendents	Statue of Liberty	Milo Goes to College
2.	1891	The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.	Bill Haley & the Comets	Shake, Rattle and Roll	Shake, Rattle and Roll
3.	1915	Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.	Fischerspooner	Tone Poem	#1
4.	1948	Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.	Joan of Arc	Ne Mosquitoes Pass	How Can Anything So Little Be Any More?
5.	1965	Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.	April Stevens & Nino Tempo	St. Louis Blues	Sing the Great Songs

(Historical facts about October 28 are from Wikipedia.)

October 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	312	Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.	Yesterday's New Quintet	Visions	Stevie
2.	1275	Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.	The Outsiders	Amsterdam	Complete Polydor Tapes
3.	1682	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.	The Three Degrees	T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)	When Will I See You Again
4.	1904	The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.	Brian Reitzel & Roger J. Manning Jr.	On the Subway	Lost In Translation Soundtrack
5.	1964	Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".	Stalag 13	The Choice is Yours	In Control
6.	1988	Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.	The Microphones	I Listen Close	Island Songs
7.	1992	United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.	The Exciters	Tell Him	Tell Him

(Historical facts about October 27 are from Wikipedia.)

October 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1775	King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.	The Get Up Kids	I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel	Post Marked Stamped No. 4 – The Get Up Kids/Braid
2.	1776	Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.	Joan of Arc	Questioning Benjamin Franklin	Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain
3.	1861	The Pony Express officially ceased operations.	Hedika	Hey Pony	Ultra Chicks, Vol. 3 – Baby Pop!
4.	1881	The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.	Johnny Cash	Don't Take Your Guns to Town	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983
5.	1921	The Chicago Theatre opens.	Sufjan Stevens	Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)	The Avalanche
6.	1948	Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.	Black Moth Super Rainbow	Smog in Cities	Falling Through a Field
7.	1959	The world sees the far side of the Moon for the first time.	Jeff Hanson	Hiding Behing the Moon	Son
8.	2001	The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.	The Kingston Trio	The Patriot Game	Capitol Collectors Series

(Historical facts about October 26 are from Wikipedia.)

October 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1760	George III becomes King of Great Britain.	Spatula	King George Island	Under the Veil of Health
2.	1938	The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".	Lustre King	Gigolo Swing	The Money Shot
3.	1962	Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.	Sufjan Stevens	Adlai Stevenson	The Avalanche
4.	2004	Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.	Embrace	Money	Money
5.	2007	The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ 380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney,Australia.	New Order	Jetstream	Waiting for the Sirens' Call
6.	2009	The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.	Outkast	B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)	Stankonia

(Historical facts about October 25 are from Wikipedia.)

October 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1590	John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.	The Walkmen	Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone	Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
2.	1795	Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia	MGMT	Pieces of What	Oracular Spectacle
3.	1901	Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.	Lone Pigeon	Waterfall	Concubine Rice
4.	1926	Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.	Queen	A Kind of Magic	A Kind of Magic
5.	1945	Founding of the United Nations	Civ	United Kids	Set Your Goals
6.	1947	Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.	Minor Threat	Seeing Red	Complete Discography

(Historical facts about October 24 are from Wikipedia.)

October 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	42 BC	Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.	Johnny Mandel	Suicide is Painless	M*A*S*H
2.	1950	The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.	Belle & Sebastian	Women's Realm	Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
3.	1861	U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.	Drive Like Jehu	Good Luck in Jail	Drive Like Jehu
4.	1958	The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story Le flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou	Tyrannosaurus Rex	Dwarfish Trumpet Blues	My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Thier Hair But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows
5.	2001	Apple releases the iPod.	The Beach Boys	I Can Hear Music	20/20
6.	N/A	Mole Day (Chemists)	múm	There is a Number of Small Things	Yesterday was dramatic - today is OK

(Historical facts about October 23 are from Wikipedia)