August 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1692	Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.	Make Believe	Witchcraft	Make Believe
2	1839	The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".	Circulatory System	Days to Come (In Photographs)	Circulatory System
3	1934	The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.	Arab Strap	(Afternoon) Soaps	Philophobia
4	1989	Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in North Sea by British and Dutch governments.	The Beach Boys	Caroline, No Radio Promo (Mike)	UM 14 Disc 4
5	2005	A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.	Classics IV	Stormy	Stormy
6	2010	Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.	Yuck	Operation	Yuck

(Historical facts about August 19 are from Wikipedia.)

August 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1572	Marriage in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.	The Descendents	Marriage	Milo Goes to College
2	1587	Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.	The Rolling Stones	Sweet Virginia	Exile on Main St.
3	1634	Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.	Nougaro	L'Amour Sorcier	Grand Angle Sur: The Best of Claude Nougaro
4	1783	A huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom as it passes over the east coast.	Tommy James & the Shondells	Ball of Fire	The Very Best of Tommy James and the Shondells
5	1938	The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.	Braid	Bridge to Canada	Movie Music Vol. Two
6	1958	Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.	Mustard Plug	Lolita	Pray for Mojo
7	2000	A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.	Doves	There Goes the Fear	Last Broadcast

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August 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1807	Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.	The Beach Boys	Steamboat	Holland
2	1907	Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.	Broken Social Scene	Marketfresh	Beehives
3	1908	Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris.	The Olivia Tremor Control	Black Foliage (Animation 1)	Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1
4	1953	Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.	Porcupine Tree	Pure Narcotic	Stupid Dream
5	1959	Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.	M83	On a White Lake Near a Green Mountain	Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
6	1970	Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).	Arab Strap	Amor Veneris	The Red Thread
7	1978	Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.	Iron Maiden	Where Eagles Dare	Piece of Mind
8	1980	Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.	The Feud	Sometimes...Few Dingo	Versus Yr Universe
9	2008	Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.	Sufjan Stevens	A Winner Needs a Wand	A Sun Came!

(Historical facts about August 17 are from Wikipedia.)

August 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1819	Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.	Hood	August Charge	Hood / Meredith Split Tape
2	1841	U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.	Scholastic Deth	Kill Em With Politics	Revenge of the Nerds
3	1869	Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.	Yeasayer	The Children	Odd Blood
4	1960	Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.	Supercar	Jump	16/50 1997-1999
5	1989	A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.	The Magnetic Fields	I Don't Believe in the Sun	69 Love Songs, Vol. 1

(Historical facts about August 16 are from Wikipedia.)

August 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1040	King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.	Ciccone Youth	Macbeth	The Whitey Album
2	1281	Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.	School of Seven Bells	Windstorm	Disconnect from Desire
3	1248	The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)	Fruup	Wise as Wisdom	Seven Secrets
4	1309	The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.	Aki Tsuyuko	Travel Alone (Fender Rhodes Version)	Ongakushitsu
5	1843	The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.	Cathedral	Introspect	Stained Glass Stories
6	1914	A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.	Talking Heads	Burning Down the House	Speaking in Tongues
7	1941	Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.	Zola Jesus	Tower	Valusia
8	1948	The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.	Ted Leo & the Pharmacists	Parallel or Together?	The Tyranny of Distance
9	1965	The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.	Metric	Stadium Love	Fantasies
10	1977	The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.	Stereolab	Wow and Flutter	Mars Audiac Quintet

(Historical facts about August 15 are from Wikipedia.)

August 14

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1848	Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.	Daniel Moore	Oregon (Give Me Wings)	Unknown
2	1885	Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.	Menomena	Wet & Rusty	Friend and Foe
3	1888	An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.	A Silver Mt. Zion	Broken Chords Can Sing a Little	He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms
4	1901	The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.	The Charlatans UK	Come in Number 21	Up to Our Hips
5	1935	United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.	Damien Jurado	Tonight I Will Retire	Ghost of David
6	2003	Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.	Now It's Overhead	Blackout Curtain	Now It's Overhead

(Historical facts about August 14 are from Wikipedia.)

August 13

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1553	Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.	Aidan John Moffat	Less Than Three	Ten Short Songs
2	1831	Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.	Badly Drawn Boy	I Need a Sign	How Did I Get Here?
3	1898	Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.	John Cage	4'33"	John Cage
4	1913	First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.	Mira	Stainless	Apart
5	1920	Polish-Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.	Queen	The Miracle	The Miracle
6	1942	Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.	Flash	Manhattan Morning	Out of Our Hands
7	1969	The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.	Stereolab	Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious	Dots and Loops

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