September 30

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1882	The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on theFox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.	Silver Apples	Water	Silver Apples
2.	1888	Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.	Smoke	My Friend Jack	The British Are Coming
3.	1901	Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.	Mental	This Sucks	Demo
4.	1935	The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.	Felix Da Housecat	She's So Damn Cool	Devin Dazzle & the Neon Fever
5.	1954	The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.	The Telescopes	When Nemo Sunk the Nautilus	Third Wave
6.	1955	Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.	Government Issue	I'm James Dean	The Year in Seven Inches

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September 29

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1650	Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters – the first historically documented dating service – inThreadneedle Street, London.	Mogwai	Close Encounters	Rock Action
2.	1829	The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.	SSD	Police Beat	Power
3.	1916	John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.	Pet Shop Boys	Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)	Please
4.	1957	20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.	Negative FX	Hazardous Waste	Negative FX / Last Rights
5.	1966	The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.	The Cyrkle	Camaro	Neon

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September 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	935	Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.	Corrin	Seed of Cain	Catalogue Sampler
2.	1066	William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.	Holding On	Invasion of the Assholes	Question What You Stand For
3.	1542	Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.	The 6ths	San Diego Zoo	Wasps' Nest
4.	1779	American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.	Enon	Elected	Believo!
5.	1889	The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy ofplatinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.	The Lovin' Spoonful	Full Measure	Greatest Hits

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September 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	489	Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.	Lifetime	The Verona Kings	Jersey's Best Dancers
2.	1822	Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.	Panic	Written in Stone	Dying For It
3.	1903	Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.	Pete Seeger	Wreck of the Old 97	American Favorite Ballads
4.	1905	The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equationE=mc².	The Apples in Stereo	Energy	New Magnetic Wonder
5.	1908	The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.	Rescue	We're From Detroit	Volume Plus Volume Plus
6.	1979	The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.	Better Than a Thousand	Is it Education?	Just One

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September 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1212	Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.	Stillwell	The Bull Starts Here	Don't Face a Problem...Burn It
2.	1580	Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.	Wolfie	I Wish I Could Navigate	4 Track Rarities
3.	1687	The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosiniwho are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.	Venetian Snares & Speedranch	Fire Beats	Making Orange Things
4.	1687	The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.	Joan of Arc	A Pale Orange	How Memory Works
5.	1777	British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.	Boyz II Men	Motownphilly	Cooleyhighharmony
6.	1960	In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.	Dead Nation	Politically Challenged	Painless
7.	N/A	European Day of Languages (European Union)	Harry Nilsson	Everybody's Talkin'	Fred Neil

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September 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	303	On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.	Queen	Dont' Lose Your Head	A Kind of Magic
2.	1513	Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.	Broken Social Scene	Pacific Theme	You Forgot it in People
3.	1690	Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.	Johnny Cash	Bad News	The Essential Johnny Cash
4.	1775	Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).	April Stevens & Nino Tempo	I Surrender Dear	Sing the Great Songs
5.	1789	The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.	Neutral Milk Hotel	You've Passed	On Avery Island

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September 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1180	Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.	Champion	The Decline	Count Our Numbers
2.	1789	The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.	2 Pac	Only God Can Judge Me	All Eyez on Me
3.	1869	"Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gouldand James Fisk plot to control the market.	The Turtles	Glitter and Gold	Solid Zinc: The Turtles Anthology
4.	1890	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.	Morrissey	Break Up The Family	Viva Hate
5.	1948	The Honda Motor Company is founded.	The Beach Boys	Little Honda	All Summer Long

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September 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1122	Concordat of Worms.	The Hidden Cameras	Worms Cannot Swim Nor Can They Walk	Ecce Homo
2.	1641	The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion USD, is lost at sea off Land's End.	Dead Can Dance	Lost Treasure	The Rare Traxx
3.	1806	Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.	Tommy Emmanuel	Lewis & Clark	The Mystery
4.	1846	Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.	The Bad Plus	Neptune (The Planet)	Give
5.	1889	Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.	Saskrotch	Metroid	Nintendo Breakz Volume 1
6.	1969	The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.	Memphis Slim and Peter Green	Chicago Seven	Blue Memphis
7.	N/A	Autumnal equinox	Jean Michel Jarre	Equinox Pt 5	Best of

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September 22

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1499	Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.	Braid	(Strawberry Ann) Switzerland	Movie Music Vol. 1
2.	1598	Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.	Mates of State	A Duel Will Settle This	Our Constant Concern
3.	1692	Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.	Deerhoof	Witchery Glamour Spell	Halfbird
4.	1851	The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.	Joni Mitchell	The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines	Mingus
5.	1919	The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.	Speedy West	Steel Strike	Steel Guitar
6.	1975	Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.	Demented Youth	Assassination Attempt	Not So Quiet on the Western Front

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September 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1780	American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.	Minor Threat	Betray	Discography
2.	1827	Joseph Smith, Jr. is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.	Zao	Angel Without Wings	A Parade of Chaos
3.	1897	The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.	Envy	Testimony to the Existence	The Eyes of Final Proof
4.	1937	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.	The Smoke	The Hobbit Symphony	The Smoke
5.	1982	The first annual International Day of Peace is held.	Bad Brains	Peace Be Unto Thee	Build a Nation

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