| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1776 | The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States. | The Intruders | I Wanna Know Your Name | From Philly with Love |
| 2. | 1791 | Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington. | The Magnetic Fields | Washington, D.C. | 69 Love Songs, Vol. 2 |
| 3. | 1850 | California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. | 2 Pac | California Love (Remix) | All Eyez on Me |
| 4. | 1850 | The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt. | Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark | Annex | Organisation |
| 5. | 1940 | George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer. | Karsh Kale | Distance | Realize |
| 6. | 1947 | First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. | Passion Pit | Moth's Wings | Manners |
(Historical facts about September 9 are from Wikipedia)
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