Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1791 | The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly. | The New Pornographers | My Rights Versus Yours | Challengers |
2. | 1939 | Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. | The Microphones | I Want Wind to Blow | The Glow Pt. 2 |
3. | 1945 | Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion | R.E.M. | Losing My Religion | Out of Time |
4. | 1955 | Jens Olsen's World Clock is started by Danish King Frederick IX and Jens Olsen's youngest grandchild Birgit. | El Guapo | Clock | Super/System |
5. | 1965 | Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7. | Modest Mouse | Space Travel is Boring | This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About |
6. | 1973 | The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II. | Joy Division | Disorder | Unknown Pleasures |
7. | 2000 | The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. | Amon Tobin | Shut Down | Monthly Joint Series |
8. | 2001 | The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean. | Bill Withers | Lean on Me | Still Bill |
(Historical facts about December 15 are from Wikipedia.)
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