June 30

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1688	The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.	The Black Heart Procession	The Invitation	Amore del Tropico
2	1859	French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.	The Stone Roses	Tightrope	Second Coming
3	1882	Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.	Beat Happening	Hangman	Jamboree
4	1905	Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity.	Faraquet	Study in Movement	Faraquet / Akarso Split
5	1906	The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.	Dead Boys	Caught with the Meat in Your Mouth	Young, Loud, and Snotty
6	1953	The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.	Animal Collective	Two Corvettes	Campfire Songs
7	1956	A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on board the two planes.	Haymarket Riot	Grand Canyon	I Know What You Did
8	1971	The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.	Talking Heads	Air	Fear of Music
9	1971	Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.	SSD	Eighteen	Power
10	1972	The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.	The Palisades	Make the Night a Little Longer	One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found

(Historical facts about June 30 are from Wikipedia.)

June 29

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1613	The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.	Turning Point	Feeding the Fire	1988-1991 Discography
2	1786	Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.	Swingset	Highlander is a Pussy	More Kids, More Fun
3	1874	Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.	Atmosphere	Blamegame	God Loves Ugly
4	1889	Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.	KC Accidental	Something for Chicago	Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub
5	1950	The United States defeats England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.	Sonic Youth	Quest for the Cup	Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star
6	1956	The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.	Dirty Beaches	A Hundred Highways	Badlands
7	1972	The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.	Fin Fang Foom	Cruel and Unusual	With the Gift Comes the Curse
8	1995	Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.	Bad Brains	At the Atlantis	Black Dots
9	2006	Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.	Sick of it All	Injustice System	Blood, Sweat, and No Tears

(Historical facts about June 29 are from Wikipedia.)

June 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1776	American Revolutionary War: Fort Moultrie is attacked during the Battle of Sullivan's Island; this event is commemorated in Carolina Day.	The Raconteurs	Carolina Drama	Consolers of the Lonely
2	1807	Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.	Mirah	The Dogs of Buenos Aires	C'mon Miracle
3	1846	The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France.	Junior Walker and the All Stars	Shotgun	Shotgun
4	1859	The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.	Melt Banana	Dog Song	Bambi's Dilemma
5	1895	Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".	Hockey	Too Fake (RAC Mix)	Mind Chaos
6	1902	The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.	FischerSpooner	Emerge	#1
7	1914	Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.	Franz Ferdinand	Fade Together	You Could Have It So Much Better
8	1919	The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side.	Depeche Mode	Peace	Sounds of the Universe
9	1969	Stonewall Riots begin in New York City marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.	The Hidden Cameras	Boys of Melody	The Smell of Our Own

(Historical facts about June 28 are from Wikipedia.)

June 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1743	War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.	Pat Benetar	Love is a Battlefield	Love is a Battlefield
2	1895	The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.	Electric Prunes	Train for Tomorrow	I Had to Much to Dream (Last Night)
3	1905	Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.	The New Pornographers	Mutiny, I Promise You	Challengers
4	1923	Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane	Badly Drawn Boy	Magic in the Air	The Hour of Bewilderbeast
5	1950	The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.	Cake	I Bombed Korea	Motorcade of Generosity
6	1967	The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.	King Crimson	Easy Money	Lark's Tongues in Aspic
7	1971	After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".	The Suicide File	I Hate Rock N' Roll	The Hope Conspiracy / The Suicide File Split
8	1989	The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.	The Books	Beautiful People	The Way Out

(Historical facts about June 27 are from Wikipedia.)

June 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1284	The legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany	The Beach Boys	I'm the Pied Piper	Holland
2	1870	The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.	Miami Horror	Holidays	Illumination
3	1927	The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.	Mercury Rev	Coney Island Cyclone	Yerself is Steam
4	1934	President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.	Hot Snakes	If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit	Automatic Midnight
5	1948	Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.	Discordance Axis	Carcass Lottery	Jouhou
6	1997	The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.	Georges Brassens	Le Pornographe	Le Pornographe
7	2008	The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.	Japancakes	Handguns and Firearms	Belmondo

(Historical facts about June 26 are from Wikipedia.)

June 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1678	Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.	Weezer	Smart Girls	Hurley
2	1906	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.	Converge	Thaw	Jane Doe
3	1949	Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.	Dub Narcotic Sound System	Bunny Echo	Boot Party
4	1960	Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.	Agnostic Front	Traitor	United Blood
5	1967	Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World	Buck	Our World	Skanktified
6	1978	The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.	Limp Wrist	Rainbows	Thee Official Limp Wrist Discography

(Historical facts about June 25 are from Wikipedia.)

June 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1374	A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.	Suicide	Dance	Second Album
2	1916	Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.	He Who Corrupts	One...Million Dollars	Master of Profits
3	1938	Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.	MGMT	Pieces of What	Oracular Spectacular
4	1947	Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.	The Olivia Tremor Control	Mystery	Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1
5	1949	The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.	On!Air!Library!	Spaghetti Western Superstar (Randolph Scott Mix)	On!Air!Library!
6	1957	In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment .	The Books	All Bad Ends All	Thought for Food
7	1982	"The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.	Broadcast	Ominous Cloud	Haha Sound
8	2010	John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.	The Walkmen	It Should Take A While	Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone

(Historical facts about June 24 are from Wikipedia.)