| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1 | 1776 | American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain. | Carole King | Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Dimension Dolls |
| 2 | 1831 | Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse. | The Byrds | Don't Make Waves | Younger Than Yesterday |
| 3 | 1934 | The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. | David Bowie | Wild is the Wind | Station to Station |
| 4 | 1954 | Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. | Bill Haley & the Comets | Rock Around the Clock | Rock Around the Clock |
| 5 | 1955 | The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. | Fugazi | Give Me the Cure | 13 Songs |
| 6 | 1990 | Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. | The Magnetic Fields | In My Car | Holiday |
(Historical facts about April 12 are from Wikipedia.)
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