Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1215 | The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ. | Better Than a Thousand | Transformation | Value Driven |
2. | 1634 | Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery. | Pet Shop Boys | The Sodom and Gomorrah Show | Fundamental |
3. | 1675 | Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x) | Matthew Matics | Calculus | Music for Video animated by Peter Drugge |
4. | 1887 | Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed. | Government Issue | Anarchy is Dead | Legless Bull |
5. | 1911 | Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. | Andrew Bird | Weather Systems | Weather Systems |
6. | 1930 | Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. | Del Close and John Brent | Cool | How to Speak Hip |
7. | N/A | Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when the holiday was re-geared to be for all American military veterans. (United States) | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Veterans Day Poppy | Trout Mask Replica |
(Historical facts about November 11 are from Wikipedia.)
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