Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1307 | Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy. | Black Eyes | Yes I Confess | Black Eyes |
2. | 1362 | The Chancellor of England for the first time opened Parliament with a speech in English. | Amy Annelle | The Birds Start Talking English | A School of Secret Dangers |
3. | 1773 | The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. | Badly Drawn Boy | Whirlpool | How Did I Get Here? |
4. | 1884 | Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude. | Electronic | Time Can Tell | Raise the Pressure |
5. | 1917 | The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. | The Stylistics | The Miracle | The Best of the Stylistics |
6. | 1983 | Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois. | American Spring | Had to Phone Ya | Spring – Plus |
(Historical facts about October 13 are from Wikipedia)
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