Saturday, July 9, 2011

July 09

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1850 U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States. Morrissey My Life is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye Swords
2 1850 The Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia. A.C. Newman Prophets Get Guilty
3 1918 Great train wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history. Weezer Trainwrecks Hurley
4 1922 Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. Parallel Pyres Swimming Parallel Pyres
5 1955 The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London. Arctic Monkeys Dangerous Animals Humbug
6 1962 Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Can Soup Ege Bamyasi

(Historical facts about July 09 are from Wikipedia.)

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