October 7

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	336	Pope Mark dies, leaving the papacy vacant.	Champion	Left Your Mark	Come Out Swinging
2.	1826	The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.	Joan Baez & Bob Dylan	Railroad Bill	Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Aug 17 1963
3.	1916	Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.	Charlie Hunter Quintet	Whoop-ass	Right Now Move
4.	1982	Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.	The Cure	The Lovecats	Staring at the Sea
5.	1998	Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.	Gayrilla Biscuits	Gay Edge	The Demos EP

(Historical facts about October 7 are from Wikipedia)