December 29

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1778	American Revolutionary War: 3,500 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia without firing a shot.	Franz Ferdinand	Well That Was Easy	You Could Have It So Much Better
2.	1813	British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.	The Dillinger Escape Plan	43 % Burnt	Calculating Infinity
3.	1835	The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of theMississippi River to the United States.	Ryan Adams	Rip Off	Easy Tiger
4.	1845	According with International Boundary delimitation, U.S.A annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine. For others, the Republic of Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.	The Carter Family	My Heart's Tonight in Texas	The Carter Family: 1927-1934
5.	1959	Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.	Interpol	A Time to Be So Small	Precipitate
6.	1966	The Beatles start the recording session that would become the hit single Penny Lane at Abbey Road Studio.	The Beatles	Penny Lane	Magical Mystery Tour
7.	1997	Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.	The Magnetic Fields	A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off	69 Love Songs, Vol. 1
8.	2003	The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.	The Cure	Speak My Language	Japanese Whispers

(Historical facts about December 29 are from Wikipedia.)