Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1721 | The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. | Red House Painters | Bubble | Bridge |
2. | 1838 | Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph. | The Breeders | S.O.S. | Last Splash |
3. | 1853 | President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. | Weezer | Trainwrecks | Hurley |
4. | 1907 | Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome. | Bobby Vee | Take Good Care of My Baby | Take Good Care of My Baby |
5. | 1912 | New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. | Casiotone for the Painfully Alone | Lonesome New Mexico Nights | Advance Base Battery Life |
6. | 1929 | Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people. | The Velvet Teen | Mother of Love | The Great Beast February |
7. | 1936 | The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act is unconstitutional in the caseUnited States v. Butler et al. | Camel | Down on the Farm | Breathless |
8. | 1941 | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. | Traffic | Freedom Rider | John Barleycorn Must Die |
9. | 1974 | In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. | Viva Voce | Daylight | The Heart Can Melt Your Brain |
10. | 1994 | Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. | Poison Idea | Die On Your Knees | Cleanse the Bacteria |
(Historical facts about January 6 are from Wikipedia.
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