Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1790 | Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13thU.S. state. | Big Star | Thirteen | #1 Record / Radio City |
2. | 1848 | Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state. | Marthe Hinny | Oh! Oh! Oui, oui, oui... | Ultra Chicks, Vol. 3. Baby Pop! |
3. | 1913 | Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot. | Rites of Spring | Spring | End on End |
4. | 1919 | Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse inPrincipe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. | And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | Relative Ways | Source Tags and Codes |
5. | 1931 | Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele "Mike" Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for INTENT to kill Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Mike Schirru. | Government Issue | Anarchy is Dead | Legless Bull |
6. | 1942 | Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles. | The Flaming Lips | White X-mas | It's a Cool, Cool Christmas |
7. | 2004 | The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. | Explosions in the Sky | Memorial | The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
(Historical facts about May 29 are from Wikipedia.)
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