January 2

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1791	Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War	Queen	Fat Bottom Girls	Jazz
2.	1818	The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded	Wolfie	I'm an Engineer	Where's Wolfie
3.	1860	The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris	Super Furry Animals	Alternate Route to Vulcan Street	Rings Around the World
4.	1900	John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China	Josh Ritter	Open Doors	The Historicaly Conquests of Josh Ritter
5.	1920	The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.	Neutral Milk Hotel	Communist Daughter	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
6.	1974	President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasolineduring an OPEC embargo	Boduf Songs	They Get On Slowly	This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything
7.	1999	A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported	Q and Not U	Snow Patterns	Different Damage

(Historical facts about January 2 are from Wikipedia.