Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1309 | Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population. | The Church | City | Gold Afternoon Fix |
2 | 1814 | War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. | The White Stripes | St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air) | Icky Thump |
3 | 1851 | First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans. | Thee Silver Moutain Reveries | There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow | Pretty Little Lightning Paw |
4 | 1884 | A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse. | Kaiser Chiefs | The Angry Mob | Yours Truly, Angry Mob |
5 | 1886 | Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars. | The Shadows | Apache | Apache |
6 | 1915 | Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. | The Everly Brothers | Take a Message to Mary | Take a Message to Mary |
7 | 1980 | Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges. | Echo and the Bunnymen | Silver | Ocean Rain |
(Historical facts about March 27 are from Wikipedia.)
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