| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1600 | Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of theBaroque Period | Apples in Stereo | Baroque | Velocity of Sound |
| 2. | 1683 | William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first immigration of German people toAmerica. (German-American Day in the US) | Add N to (X) | Gentle Germans | On the Wires of Our Nerves |
| 3. | 1927 | Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. | Cap'n Jazz | Yes, I am Talking to You | Analphabetapolothology |
| 4. | 1945 | Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat). | The National Splits | This Old Curse | The National Splits |
| 5. | 1976 | New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China. | Gang of Four | At Home He's a Tourist | Entertainment! |
| 6. | 2007 | Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. | The Pixies | All Over the World | Bossanova |
(Historical facts about October 6 are from Wikipedia)
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