Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1633 | The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe. | Truth | Don't Explain | Puppets |
2 | 1893 | The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. | Owen | Accidentally | Owen |
3 | 1944 | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. | Modest Mouse | Education | We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
4 | 2003 | The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska | Rilo Kiley | Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight that Surrounds You | The Execution of All Things |
5 | 2009 | Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80. | Beck | Broken Train | Midnight Vultures |
6 | 2009 | Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. | Poison Idea | Out of the Picture | The Best of Poison Idea |
(Historical facts about June 22 are from Wikipedia.)
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