| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1859 | Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well. | Wesley Willis | Oil Express | Greatest Hits Vol. 2 |
| 2. | 1896 | Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. | Give Up the Ghost | (It's Sometimes Like It Never Started) | We're Down Til We're Underground |
| 3. | 1939 | First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft. | Ladytron | Jet Age | 604 |
| 4. | 1962 | The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA. | The 90 Day Men | My Trip to Venus | The 90 Day Men |
| 5. | 1993 | The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed. | The Apples in Stereo | The Rainbow | The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone |
| 6. | 2003 | Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. | The Cure | Close to Me | Greatest Hits |
(Historical facts about August 27 are from Wikipedia)
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