June 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1611	The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.	Windy and Carl	Set Adrift	Depths
2	1810	John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.	Of Montreal	Vegan in Furs	Satanic Panic in the Attic
3	1917	In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.	Punch in the Face	Punch in the Face	Punch in the Face
4	1926	The College Board administers the first SAT exam.	Examination of the ...	A Feeling Is Always/Never	We Are the Architects of Desire
5	1961	Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.	Antarctica	Tower of Silence	81-03
6	1972	Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.	Sportswear	Something Better	It Runs Deep
7	1989	The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services is unconstitutional.	Nancy Sinatra	Call Me	The Very Best of Nancy Sinatra

(Historical facts about June 23 are from Wikipedia.)

June 22

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1633	The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.	Truth	Don't Explain	Puppets
2	1893	The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.	Owen	Accidentally	Owen
3	1944	U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.	Modest Mouse	Education	We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
4	2003	The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska	Rilo Kiley	Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight that Surrounds You	The Execution of All Things
5	2009	Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.	Beck	Broken Train	Midnight Vultures
6	2009	Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.	Poison Idea	Out of the Picture	The Best of Poison Idea

(Historical facts about June 22 are from Wikipedia.)

June 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1621	Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.	Genesis	White Mountain	Trespass
2	1768	James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.	The White Stripes	Offend in Every Way	White Blood Cells
3	1788	New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.	Matt Pond PA	New Hampshire	Emblems
4	1948	Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.	Discovery	So Insane	LP
5	1973	In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.	Bold	Speak Out	Looking Back
6	2004	SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.	Ponytail	Beyondersville / Flight of Fancy	Do Whatever You Want All the Time

(Historical facts about June 21 are from Wikipedia.)

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.)

June 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1586	English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.	Joy Division	Failures	Lost Treasures
2	1862	The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.	Poison Idea	Legalize Freedom	The Best of Poison Idea
3	1910	The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.	Explosions in the Sky	A Song for Our Fathers	How Strange, Innocence
4	1974	A female resident of Bellevue, Washington, becomes the first person to be saved by the Heimlich maneuver.	Watashi Wa	The Air I Breathe	The Love of Life
5	1978	Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.	Amon Tobin	Kitty Cat	Isam
6	1987	Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.	ExTxA	No Win Situation	Tear It Up / E.T.A. Split

(Historical facts about June 19 are from Wikipedia.)

June 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1778	American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.	People's Choice	Don't Send Me Away	From Philly with Love
2	1858	Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.	Ritchie Valens	Hurry Up	Ritchie
3	1873	Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.	Grizzly Bear	Fine for Now	Veckatimest
4	1923	Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.	Vampire Weekend	Taxi Cab	Contra
5	1940	"Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.	No Reply	Finest Hour	No Reply
6	1946	Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.	Queen	Action This Day	Hot Space
7	1983	Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.	Anyone's Daughter	Sally	Adonis
8	1994	The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, killing six civilians and wounding five.	The Beta Band	Troubles	Heroes to Zeroes

(Historical facts about June 18 are from Wikipedia.)

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.)