August 31

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1888	Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims.	Morrissey	Jack the Ripper	Certain People I Know
2.	1897	Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.	Modest Mouse	The Stars are Projectors	The Moon and Antarctica
3.	1994	The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.	Sick of It All	Ceasefire	Scratch the Surface
4.	1997	Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.	The 90 Day Men	National Car Crash	To Everybody
5.	2006	Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.	Michael Jackson (w/ Janet Jackson)	Scream	HIStory II

(Historical facts about August 31 are from Wikipedia)

August 30

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1836	The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen	The Rooftop Singers	Houston Special	American Folksingers and Balladeers
2.	1873	Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.	Mirah	Archipelago	You Think It's Like This, But It's Really Like This
3.	1984	1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.	El Guapo	Space Tourist	Fake French
4.		International Day of the Disappeared	Stars	The Vanishing	Heart

(Historical facts about August 30 are from Wikipedia)

August 29

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	708	Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).	Barrett Strong	Money (That's What I Want)	Money (That's What I Want)
2.	1756	Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.	Glasseater	Seven Years Bad Luck	Seven Years Bad Luck
3.	1758	The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.	Sufjan Stevens	No Man's Land	The Avalanche
4.	1831	Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.	Kerosene 454	Electric's on the Rise	At Zero
5.	1885	Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.	Yo La Tengo	Speeding Motorcycle	Fakebook
6.	2005	Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.	Judge	The Storm	Bringin' It Down

(Historical facts about August 29 are from Wikipedia)

August 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1189	Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan	Morning Dew	Crusader's Smile	Morning Dew
2.	1609	Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.	Saves the Day	Hot Time in Delaware	Can't Slow Down
3.	1830	The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.	Pegboy	Locomotive Lung	Strong Reaction
4.	1859	A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.	Bjork	Aurora	Vespertine
5.	1898	Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".	Outo	I Like Cola	Nagasaki Nightrider Comp
6.	1955	Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.	The Fleetwoods	Tragedy	The Best of the Fleetwoods
7.	1961	Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.	The Marvelettes	Please, Mr. Postman	Please, Mr. Postman
8.	1990	The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.	The Pixies	Blown Away	Bossanova

(Historical facts about August 28 are from Wikipedia)

ADDENDUM: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the speech "I Have a Dream"
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Artist: 7 Seconds
Song: I Have a Dream
Album: The Crew

August 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1859	Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.	Wesley Willis	Oil Express	Greatest Hits Vol. 2
2.	1896	Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.	Give Up the Ghost	(It's Sometimes Like It Never Started)	We're Down Til We're Underground
3.	1939	First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.	Ladytron	Jet Age	604
4.	1962	The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.	The 90 Day Men	My Trip to Venus	The 90 Day Men
5.	1993	The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.	The Apples in Stereo	The Rainbow	The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
6.	2003	Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.	The Cure	Close to Me	Greatest Hits

(Historical facts about August 27 are from Wikipedia)

August 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1346	Hundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armouredknights is established at the Battle of Crécy.	Walkmen	Bows and Arrows	Bows and Arrows
2.	1466	A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.	The Beatles	Baby, You're a Rich Man	Magical Mystery Tour
3.	1748	The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.	Johnny Cash	Luther Played the Boogie	The Sun Years
4.	1858	First news dispatch by telegraph.	The Russian Futurists	A Telegram from the Future	Let's Get Ready to Crumble
5.	1939	The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.	Blink 182	TV	Cheshire Cat
6.	1970	The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality. Exactly one year later Congress declares Aug. 26 to be Women's Equality Day.	DRI	Equal People	Dealing with It
7.	1987	President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.	Reagan Youth	Reagan Youth	Youth Anthems for the New Order

(Historical facts about August 26 are from Wikipedia)

August 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1609	Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers	Nada Surf	Telescope	Karmic
2.	1768	James Cook begins his first voyage.	Quasi	Bon Voyage	Field Studies
3.	1825	Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.	New Order	Leave Me Alone	Power, Corruption & Lies
4.	1835	The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.	The Magnetic Fields	Alien Being	House of Tomorrow
5.	1894	Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.	!!!	The Dis-ease	The Dis-ease/The Funky Branca
6.	1910	Yellow Cab is founded.	Make Believe	Can't Tell Cop from Cab	Shock of Being
7.	1944	World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.	Aloha	Liberty	That's Your Fire
8.	1989	Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.	Jimi Hendrix	Valleys of Neptune	Valleys of Neptune

(Historical facts about August 25 are from Wikipedia)

August 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	79	Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.	The Microphones	Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano	Invisible Shield
2.	1814	British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.	Talking Heads	Burning Down the House	Speaking in Tongues
3.	1891	Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.	Thomas Edison	Mary Had a Little Lamb	N/A
4.	1912	Alaska becomes a United States territory.	Johnny Cash	When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)	Murder
5.	1932	Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).	Spanky & Our Gang	Amelia Earhart's Last Flight	Live
6.	1960	A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low. (Broken in 1983 in the same location)	The Cure	Cold	Pornography
7.	1995	Computer software developer Microsoft releases their Windows 95 operating system.	Broadcast	Unchanging Windows	The Noise Made by People
8.	1998	First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.	Peter Tosh	Mark of the Beast	Honorary Citizen
9.	2006	The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.	The Creatures	Pluto Drive	Boomerang

(Historical facts about August 24 are from Wikipedia)

August 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1305	William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.	Grave Digger	William Wallace (Braveheart)	Tunes of War
2.	1572	Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.	The Varukers	Another Religion, Another War	Another Religion, Another War
3.	1775	King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.	The Crystals	He's a Rebel	He's a Rebel
4.	1784	Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.	Bikini Kill	Reject All American	Reject All American
5.	1927	Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.	Joan Baez	The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti	Forever Young
6.	1942	World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.	The Homosexuals	Calvary	Astral Glamour
7.	1966	Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.	John Vanderslice	Lunar Landscapes	Cellar Door
8.	1998	UNESCO designates Aug. 23 as the nternational Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition	Riot/Clone	Slave Trade	To Find a Little Bluebird

(Historical facts about August 23 are from Wikipedia)