| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1727 | A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children. | James and Bobby Purify | I'm Your Puppet | I'm Your Puppet |
| 2. | 1888 | In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found. | New Order | Murder | Substance |
| 3. | 1892 | The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited. | Orchid | Pledge | Orchid / Pig Destroyer Split |
| 4. | 1921 | 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America. | Victory at Sea | Mermaid | Carousel |
| 5. | 1930 | 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. | The Olivia Tremor Control | Define a Transparent Dream | Dusk at Cubist Castle |
| 6. | 1965 | September 8 was proclaimed International Literacy Day by UNESCO on November 17, 1965. | Scholastic Deth | Literally Illiterate | Killed by School |
| 7. | 1975 | Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is later given a general discharge. | Gayrilla Biscuits | No Homosexual Surrender | The Demos |
(Historical facts about September 8 are from Wikipedia)
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