Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 800 | Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. | Family | Coronation | Bandstand |
2. | 1066 | William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. | Splendor Bin | Coronation Day | Stealth |
3. | 1100 | Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in theChurch of the Nativity. | Gentle Giant | Pantagruel's Nativity | Acquiring the Taste |
4. | 1818 | The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. | Frank Sinatra | Silent Night | A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra |
5. | 1868 | U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. | The Get Up Kids | Forgive and Forget | Red Letter Day |
6. | 1946 | The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1. | Aisler Set | Attraction Action Reaction | How I Learned to Write Backwards |
7. | 1950 | The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. | D'swooners | Stone Free | Japanese Garage Bands of the 60's |
8. | 1974 | Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. | Peter Gabriel | Intruder | Melt |
9. | 1990 | The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web. | Marillion | The Web | Script for a Jester's Tear |
10. | N/A | Christmas Day, Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. (International) | The Beach Boys | Christmas Day | Christmas with the Beach Boys |
(Historical facts about December 25 are from Wikipedia.)
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