Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1773 | Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland. | April Stevens & Nino Tempo | Tea for Two | Sing the Great Songs |
2. | 1867 | The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-establishedcivil government of Japan | The Microphones | Samurai Sword | The Glow, Pt 2 |
3. | 1884 | The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. | Lakes | Photographs | Photographs |
4. | 1888 | Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. | The Instruments | For a Silent Movie | Billions of Photographs |
5. | 1926 | The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published. | The Outsiders | The Bear | Complete Polydor Tapes |
6. | 1982 | U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. | Joy Zipper | Drugs | American Whip |
7. | N/A | World Standards Day (International) | Quasi | It's All the Same | Field Studies |
(Historical facts about October 14 are from Wikipedia)
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