December 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1653	English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotlandand Ireland.	The White Stripes	This Protector	White Blood Cells
2.	1707	Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.	Beck	Volcano	Modern Guilt
3.	1773	American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Bostonharbor as a protest against the Tea Act.	Belle & Sebastian	For the Price of a Cup of Tea	The Life Pursuit
4.	1811	The first two in a series of severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These three so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today's heartland states of the United States.	Uncle Tupelo	New Madrid	Anodyne
5.	1930	Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.	Genesis	Robbery, Assault, and Battery	Trick of the Tail
6.	1937	Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.	Atomic Rooster	The Rock	In Hearing of the Atomic Rooster
7.	1997	An episode of Pokémon, "Dennō Senshi Porygon", aired in Japan induces seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.	The Locust	File Under "Soft Core Seizures"	Plague Soundscapes

(Historical facts about December 16 are from Wikipedia.)