Friday, June 17, 2011

June 17

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal. Yeasayer I Remember Odd Blood
2 1673 French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course. The Grass Roots The Rivers is Wide The Best of the Grass Roots
3 1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. Aloha Liberty That's Your Fire
4 1933 Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash. Iron & Wine Free Until They Cut Me Down Our Endless Numbered Days
5 1958 The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens. It is still open today. Belle & Sebastian The Rollercoaster Ride The Boy with the Arab Strap
6 1971 President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs. The War on Drugs Comin' Through Future Weather
7 1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The Get Up Kids I'll Catch You Something to Write Home About

(Historical facts about June 17 are from Wikipedia.)

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