Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 404 BC | Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends. | Azure Ray | Raining in Athens | Burn and Shiver |
2 | 1792 | Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. | Amon Duul II | Soap Shop Rock: Halluzination Guillotine | Yeti |
3 | 1849 | The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots. | The Stills | Of Montreal | Logic Will Break Your Heart |
4 | 1901 | New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. | Don Caballero | Details on How to Get Icemand on Your License Plate | American Don |
5 | 1939 | DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time. | Mogwai | I am Not Batman | Ten Rapid |
6 | 1953 | Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA. | Of Montreal | Lecithin's Tale of a DNA Experiment that Went Horribly Awry | Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse |
7 | 1961 | Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit. | Mew | Circuitry of the Wolf | And the Glass Handed Kites |
8 | 2003 | The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated. | No Time Left | Human Interest Story | Zero Effort Solution |
(Historical facts about April 25 are from Wikipedia.)
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