| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1582 | Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. | Embrace | Dance of Days | Embrace |
| 2. | 1764 | Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work onThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. | Lou Christie | Back to the Days of the Romans | Enlightnin'ment |
| 3. | 1793 | Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and condemned in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day. | Lee Hazlewood | Forget Marie | Cowboy in Sweden |
| 4. | 1878 | The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation. | The Smiths | There is a Light That Never Goes Out | The Queen is Dead |
| 5. | 1888 | The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators. | Oxes | I'm From Hell, Open a Windle | Oxes |
| 6. | 1997 | The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere. | The Kinks | Supersonic Rocket Ship | The Ultimate Collection |
| 7. | N/A | White Cane Safety Day (United States) | Joy Division | From Safety to Where | Substance |
(Historical facts about October 15 are from Wikipedia)
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