Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1687 | Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men. | Joe Calicott | Fare Thee Well Blues | Mississippi Masters - Early American Blues Classics 1927-35 |
2 | 1915 | Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet. | Mint Condition | Here We Go Again | Meant to be Mint |
3 | 1916 | Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history. | Explosions in the Sky | Look Into the Air | How Strange, Innocence |
4 | 1954 | Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today. | Guided By Voices | Skills Like This | Isolation Drills |
5 | 1958 | The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured. | The Castaways | Liar, Liar | Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968, Vol. 1 |
6 | 1979 | The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN. | Polysics | TV's High | For Young Electric Pop |
7 | 2011 | The moon makes its closest approach to earth by nearly 30,000 miles in the last 18 years, thus dubbing it supermoon. | Dixie Cups | Gee The Moon is Shining Bright | The Complete Red Bird Recordings |
(Historical facts about March 19 are from Wikipedia.)
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