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.)
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