| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1816 | The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed. | The Rolling Stones | You Gotta Move | Sticky Fingers |
| 2. | 1853 | Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroadbuilding in the Southwest. | The Magnetic Fields | Railroad Boy | Distant Plastic Trees |
| 3. | 1853 | A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London. | Single Frame | I've Been to a Party at this House | Wetheads Come Running |
| 4. | 1903 | A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600. | Duran Duran | A View to a Kill | A View to a Kill |
| 5. | 1919 | Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student. | French Kicks | Young Lawyer | Young Lawyer |
| 6. | 1924 | Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies. | Deerhoof | The Galaxist | Friend Opportunity |
| 7. | 1977 | For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. | Eloy | Escape to the Heights | Metromania |
| 8. | 2009 | The last roll of Kodachrome film is developed by Dwayne's Photo, the only remaining Kodachrome processor at the time, concluding the film's 74-year run as a photography icon. | Snow Patrol | Please Just Take These Photos from My Hands | A Hundred Million Suns |
(Historical facts about December 30 are from Wikipedia.)
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