November 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1806	Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains(it is later named Pikes Pea	Polysics	Pike	Hey!Bob!My Friend!
2.	1859	The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.	Victory at Sea	Games	Memories Fade
3.	1864	American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.	Phil Phillips & the Twilights	Sea of Love	Sea of Love
4.	1939	In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.	Explosions in the Sky	Memorial	Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
5.	1943	Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)	Fleetwood Mac	Gypsy	Mirage
6.	1969	In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant.	The Beach Boys	Wendy	All Summer Long
7.	1979	A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.	MK Ultra	Hooray for the Unabomber	MK Ultra
8.	N/A	Shichi-Go-San (Japan)	Animal Collective	Kids On Holiday	Sung Tongs

(Historical facts about November 15 are from Wikipedia.)