Saturday, October 9, 2010

October 9

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1604 Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. Future Bible Heroes From Some Dying Star Eternal Youth
2. 1635 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. Wolfie You Have to Leave 4 Track Rarities
3. 1776 Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California. Aislers Set Mission Bells How I Learned to Write Backwards
4. 1888 The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. Q and Not U End the Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight No Kill No Beep Beep
5. 1969  In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24. Camera Obscura I Don't Do Crowds Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
6. 1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu The Gerbils Meteoroid from the Sun Strikes a Dead Wierdo The Battle of Electricity

(Historical facts about October 9 are from Wikipedia)

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