Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1129 | Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. | XTC | Knights in Shining Karma | Apple Venus Vol. 1 |
2 | 1639 | The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut. | Spoon | The Government Darling | Telephono |
3 | 1784 | American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris with Great Britain. | Old Time Relijun | War is Over | Lost Light |
4 | 1933 | The controversial Bodyline cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine's England peaks when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was hit in the heart. | Arctic Monkeys | D is for Dangerous | Favourite Worst Nightmare |
5 | 1943 | World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill. | The Album Leaf | Airplane | An Orchestrated Rise to Fall |
6 | 1952 | NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway. | I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness | Today | Fear is on Our Side |
7 | 1967 | Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. | The Beach Boys | Summer Means New Love | Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) |
8 | 1969 | An accidental explosion aboard the USSEnterprise(CVN-65) near Hawaii kills 27 people. | The Telescopes | Spaceships | The Telescopes |
9 | 1972 | Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513. | Death Cab for Cutie | Different Names for the Same Thing | Plans |
(Historical facts about January 14 are from Wikipedia.)
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