Monday, June 20, 2011

June 20

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1605 After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia was assassinated. Mastodon The Czar Crack the Skye
2 1756 A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. Beck Blackhole Mellow Gold
3 1787 Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States. The Smashing Pumpkins United States Zeitgeist
4 1893 Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother. The Beatles Dizzy Miss Lizzie Help!
5 1963 The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. Love The Red Telephone Forever Changes

(Historical facts about June 20 are from Wikipedia.)

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