| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1 | 1713 | With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717). | Bjork | Heirloom | Vespertine |
| 2 | 1770 | Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding. | Angels of Light | Wedding | Everything is Good Here/ Please |
| 3 | 1892 | Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. | Parallel Pyres | Drive | II |
| 4 | 1927 | Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. | Neutral Milk Hotel | Song Against Sex | On Avery Island |
| 5 | 1956 | Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. | Piebald | Grace Kelly with Wing | All Ages |
| 6 | 1987 | The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show | Leon Kompowsky & Bart Simpson | Happy Birthday Lisa | Stark Raving Dad |
| 7 | 1995 | Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas. | John Vanderslice | Bomb in Reverse | MGM Endings |
(Historical facts about April 19 are from Wikipedia.)
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