| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1 | 1586 | English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America. | Joy Division | Failures | Lost Treasures |
| 2 | 1862 | The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford. | Poison Idea | Legalize Freedom | The Best of Poison Idea |
| 3 | 1910 | The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. | Explosions in the Sky | A Song for Our Fathers | How Strange, Innocence |
| 4 | 1974 | A female resident of Bellevue, Washington, becomes the first person to be saved by the Heimlich maneuver. | Watashi Wa | The Air I Breathe | The Love of Life |
| 5 | 1978 | Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut. | Amon Tobin | Kitty Cat | Isam |
| 6 | 1987 | Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45. | ExTxA | No Win Situation | Tear It Up / E.T.A. Split |
(Historical facts about June 19 are from Wikipedia.)
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