Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1776 | American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau. | Old Time Relijun | Amphibian Factory | Varieties of Religious Experience |
2 | 1845 | Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. | The Microphones | Florida Beach | Don't Wake Me Up |
3 | 1873 | Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. | Map | Everything is Bad for You | Secrets by the Highway |
4 | 1904 | Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder. | Half-Handed Cloud | Worlds in Speech, Now in Reach! | Learning About Your Scale |
5 | 1931 | The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem. | Radiohead | The National Anthem | Kid A |
6 | 1951 | Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee. | The Turtles | The Story of Rock and Roll | The Story of Rock and Roll |
7 | 1991 | An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. | SSD | Police Beat | Power |
(Historical facts about March 03 are from Wikipedia.)
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