| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1 | 1014 | Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. | Victory at Sea | A Song for Brian | The Good Night |
| 2 | 1635 | The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. | Belle & Sebastian | The Ghost of Rockschool | Write about Love |
| 3 | 1910 | Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech. | Nick Drake | Man in a Shed | Five Leaves Left |
| 4 | 1932 | The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later. | Unwed Sailor | Cuckoo Clocks the Call of the Windmill | The Marionette and the Music Box |
| 5 | 1985 | Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months. | Piebald | New Coke | When Life Hands You Lemons |
| 6 | 2009 | The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe. | Electronic | Some Distant Memory | Electronic |
(Historical facts about April 23 are from Wikipedia.)
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