January 31

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1747	The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.	Buried Alive	Drenched in Disease	Death of Your Perfect World
2	1846	After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.	Braid	Milwaukee Sky Rocket	Frame & Canvas
3	1862	Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University.	Deerhoof	Siriustar	The Runners Four
4	1876	The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.	Wilco	Reservations	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5	1930	3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.	Floorpunch	Stick Together	Division One Champs
6	1958	James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.	The Apples in Stereo	Radiation	New Magnetic Wonder
7	1990	The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.	Wesley Willis	Rock n Roll McDonalds	Greatest Hits

(Historical facts about January 31 are from Wikipedia.)

January 30

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1649	King Charles I of England is beheaded.	The Beach Boys	Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)	Pet Sounds
2	1703	The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.	Figure Four	Loyalty	No Weapons Formed Against Us
3	1835	In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.	Quasi	Only Success Can Fail Me Now	Featuring "Birds"
4	1847	Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.	Of Montreal	Honeymoon in San Francisco	The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy
5	1969	The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.	Califone	Rooftop-static	Deceleration One
6	1982	Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".	Slapshot	Hang Up Your Boots	Step On It

(Historical facts about January 30 are from Wikipedia.

January 29

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1834	US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.	Roy Orbison	Working for the Man	The All-time Greatest Hits
2	1845	"The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe	The Alan Parsons Project	The Raven	Tales of Mystery and Imagination
3	1850	Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.	American Quartet with Billy Murray	Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay	Victor 18353
4	1861	Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.	The Weddng Present	Kansas	Saturnalia
5	1886	Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.	The Mercury Program	From the Vapor of Gasoline	From the Vapor of Gasoline
6	1891	Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.	Osymyso	Sod It, I'm Off to Hawaii!	Welcome to the Palindrome
7	2002	In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.	Franz Ferdinand	Evil and a Heathen	You Could Have it So Much Beter

(Historical facts about January 29 are from Wikipedia.)

January 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	814	Charlemagne dies. He was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum) from 800 to his death.	KC Accidental	Kev's Message for Charlie	Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub
2	1754	Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.	The Serendipity Singers	Beans in My Ears	The Serendipity Singers
3	1887	In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.	Q and Not U	Snow Patterns	Different Damage
4	1896	Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).	Nada Surf	Hi Speed Soul	Let Go
5	1933	The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.	Statistics	Leave Your Name	Leave Your Name
6	1938	The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).	12 Rods	I Am Faster	Split Personalities

(Historical facts about January 28 are from Wikipedia.)

January 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1142	Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.	The New Pornographers	Execution Day	Mass Romantic
2	1785	The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.	Belle & Sebastian	The Stars of Track and Field	If You're Feeling Sinister
3	1825	The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".	The Cardigans	Hey! Get Out of My Way	Life
4	1909	The Young Left is founded in Norway.	Peter Bjorn and John	Young Folks	Writer's Block
5	1951	Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.	Deerhoof	A-Town Test Site	The Man, the King, the Girl
6	1967	Apollo program: Apollo 1	Hum	Apollo	Downward is Heavenward
7	1967	More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.	Antioch Arrow	Space Age	In Love with Jetts
8	1983	The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of HonshÅ« and Hokkaidō, breaks through.	Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)	Funeral
9	1984	Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.	Fugazi	Burning	13 Songs
10	2006	Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.	T. Rex	Telegram Sam	The Slider

(Historical facts about January 27 are from Wikipedia.)

January 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1564	The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.	The Stone Poneys	Different Drum	Evergreen, Volume 2
2	1589	Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.	Talking Heads	Found a Job	More Songs about Buildings and Food
3	1837	Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.	Sufjan Stevens	Say Yes! to Michigan!	Michigan
4	1838	Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States	Rev. I.B. Ware/Wife & Son	You Better Quit Drinking Shine	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)
5	1855	Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.	Fennesz	The Point of it All	Venice
6	1905	The Cullinan Diamond is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.	The Black Heart Procession	It's a Crime I Never Told You about the Diamonds in Your Eyes	2
7	1960	Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)	Sonic Youth	Cinderella's Big Score	Goo
8	1978	The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio	Victory at Sea	Blizzard of '78	Carousel
9	1992	Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.	Spoon	Don't Make Me a Target	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10	2004	A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.	Void	Explode	Faith/Void Split

(Historical facts about January 26 are from Wikipedia.)

January 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1533	Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.	The Beatles	Do You Want to Know a Secret	Please Please Me
2	1787	American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons.	Los Locos Del Ritmo	Yo No Soy Rebelde	Mexican Garage Stompers
3	1858	The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.	Broken Social Scene	Weddings	Beehives
4	1881	Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.	Joan of Arc	The Telephones Have Begun Making Calls	Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain
5	1937	The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.	School of Seven Bells	Wired for Light	Alpinisms
6	1971	Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.	Charles Manson	Ra-Hide Away!	Family Jams
7	1996	Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.	Bobby Darin	Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home	Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
8	2004	Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.	The Flaming Lips	Take Me Ta Mars	In a Priest Driven Ambulance

(Historical facts about January 25 are from Wikipedia.)

January 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	41	Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.	Muse	Assassin	Black Holes and Revelations
2	1848	California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.	Neil Young	After the Gold Rush	After the Gold Rush
3	1916	In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.	D.R.I.	Give My Taxes Back	Dealing with It
4	1961	1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.	Beck	Missing	Guero
5	1972	Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.	Architecture in Helsinki	Whever You've Been Hiding	Fingers Crossed
6	1978	Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor onboard, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.	XTC	Another Satellite	Skylarking
7	1984	The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.	The White Stripes	Apple Blossom	De Stijl
8	2009	The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.	Valley of the Giants	Claudia and Klaus	Valley of the Giants

(Historical facts about January 24 are from Wikipedia.)