Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1629 | Charles I of England dissolves the Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule. | Stars | Personal | In Our Bedroom After the War |
2 | 1848 | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War. | Los Johnny Jets | Deja De Llorar (Everything is Alright) | Rare Mexican Cuts from the Sixties |
3 | 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." | Björk | Come to Me | Debut |
4 | 1969 | In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later retracts his guilty plea. | Sick of it All | Guilty | Call to Arms |
5 | 1970 | Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes. | My Lai | Rock Paper Scissors | Learn...Forget...Re-learn |
6 | 1977 | Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus. | Union of Uranus | Revolve | Disaster by Design |
7 | 2008 | The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service. | Gong | Prostitute Poem | Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 2) |
(Historical facts about March 10 are from Wikipedia.)
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