| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 480 BC | The Battle of Thermopylae, fought between 300 Spartans, led by their king, Leonidas, and the Achaemenid Empire begins | Negative Approach | Ready to Fight | Negative Approach |
| 2. | 1630 | The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded. | SSD | Boston Crew | Power |
| 3. | 1686 | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa. | Belle and Sebastian | Simple Things | Boy with the Arab Strap |
| 4. | 1787 | The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Map | Lay Down the Law | Secrets by the Highway |
| 5. | 1862 | American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history. | Joan Baez | Song in the Blood | Baptism |
| 6. | 1991 | The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. | Victory at Sea | The Open Road | Carousel |
(Historical facts about September 17 are from Wikipedia)
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