March 31

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1146	Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.	The Church	Fields of Mars	Blurred Crusade
2	1717	A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.	The New Pornographers	It's Only Divine Right	Electric Version
3	1854	Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.	Wide Awake	Friendship	Discography
4	1906	The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.	Sick of It All	Who Sets the Rules	Scratch the Surface
5	1918	Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.	Viva Voce	Daylight	The Heart Can Melt Your Brain
6	1930	The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.	Bad Brains	Regulator	Black Dots
7	1951	Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.	Deerhoof	Data	Holdy Paws
8	1980	The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.	Johnny Cash	Rock Island Line	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983
9	1985	The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.	Joan of Arc	Let's Wrestle	A Portable Model of

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March 30

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1842	Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.	Shai Hulud	Anesthesia	A Profound Hatred of Man
2	1855	Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas	Bleeding Kansas	It's Time Like These...	Red Line Distribution Sampler
3	1867	Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. Some in the American media call this Seward's Folly.	The Smiths	I'll Never Make that Mistake Again	Last of the English Roses
4	1981	President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.	Saves the Day	Jodie	Can't Slow Down

(Historical facts about March 30 are from Wikipedia.)

March 29

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1806	Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.	The Convocation Of...	Highway	The Convocation Of...
2	1867	Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.	Matt Pond PA	Canadian Song	Green Fury
3	1882	The Knights of Columbus are established.	Of Montreal	Knight Rider	The Sunlandic Twins
4	1886	Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.	Le Onde Blu	Layla (Strange Brew)	Italian Sixties Beat, Vol. 1
5	1951	Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.	Beck	The Information	The Information
6	1971	A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.	Charles Manson	Die to Be One	Family Jams
7	2004	The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.	Kung Fu Rick	Public Smoking Banishment	Acceptance/Show Me the Way
8	2008	Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.	Unwed Sailor	The Quiet Hour	The Faithful Anchor

(Historical facts about March 29 are from Wikipedia.)

March 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	364	Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.	Ritchie Valens	Come On Let's Go	Come On Let's Go
2	845	Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.	The Del Vikings	Come Go With Me	Come Go With Me
3	1920	Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.	Sufjan Stevens	The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake	The Avalanche
4	1930	Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.	City of Caterpillar	A Little Change Could Go a Long Ways	City of Caterpillar
5	1979	Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.	Saves the Day	Three Miles Down	Can't Slow Down
6	1990	President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.	Nice Nice	Make it Gold	Extra Wow
7	2006	At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.	Aloha	Protest Song	Sugar

(Historical facts about March 28 are from Wikipedia.)

March 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1309	Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.	The Church	City	Gold Afternoon Fix
2	1814	War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.	The White Stripes	St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)	Icky Thump
3	1851	First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.	Thee Silver Moutain Reveries	There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow	Pretty Little Lightning Paw
4	1884	A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.	Kaiser Chiefs	The Angry Mob	Yours Truly, Angry Mob
5	1886	Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.	The Shadows	Apache	Apache
6	1915	Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.	The Everly Brothers	Take a Message to Mary	Take a Message to Mary
7	1980	Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.	Echo and the Bunnymen	Silver	Ocean Rain

(Historical facts about March 27 are from Wikipedia.)

March 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1484	William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.	The New Pornographers	These are the Fables	Twin Cinema
2	1967	Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City	The 5th Dimension	Be Here Now	Earthbound
3	1974	Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.	The Essex Green	Trees	Fabulous Day
4	1975	The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.	Air	Biological	Talkie Walkie
5	1997	Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.	I Hate Myself	Secret Lovers at the Heaven's Gate Ranch	I Hate Myself
6	1999	The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.	The Allman Brothers Band	Melissa	Eat a Peach

(Historical facts about March 26 are from Wikipedia.)

March 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	421	Venice, Italy is born at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.	Fennesz	Transit (ft. David Sylvian)	Venice
2	1584	Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.	Os Mutantes	Virginia	Tecnicolor
3	1811	Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.	Everclear	Why I Don't Believe in God	So Much for the Afterglow
4	1911	In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.	Shalabi Effect	Vicious Triangle	Shalabi Effect 1
5	1948	The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.	American Analog Set	Weather Report	The Golden Band
6	1957	United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity.	Tokimonsta	Madness	Midnight Menu
7	1990	The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx.	Old Time Relijun	Happyland	Varieties of Religious Experience

(Historical facts about March 25 are from Wikipedia.)

March 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1765	American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.	Braid	Quarters	Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five
2	1832	In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..	Kind of Like Spitting	Birds of a Feather	Nothing Makes Sense Without It
3	1896	A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.	Pet Shop Boys	Radiophonic	Nightlife
4	1944	World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.	The Convocation of...	Moments Escape	The Convocation of...
5	1965	NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.	Tyrannosaurus Rex	By the Light of a Magical Moon	A Beard of Stars
6	1989	Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of petroleum after running aground.	Thumbnail	I Know It Spills	Red!Dead!

(Historical facts about March 24 are from Wikipedia.)