Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1374 | A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. | Suicide | Dance | Second Album |
2 | 1916 | Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract. | He Who Corrupts | One...Million Dollars | Master of Profits |
3 | 1938 | Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. | MGMT | Pieces of What | Oracular Spectacular |
4 | 1947 | Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. | The Olivia Tremor Control | Mystery | Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1 |
5 | 1949 | The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd. | On!Air!Library! | Spaghetti Western Superstar (Randolph Scott Mix) | On!Air!Library! |
6 | 1957 | In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment . | The Books | All Bad Ends All | Thought for Food |
7 | 1982 | "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. | Broadcast | Ominous Cloud | Haha Sound |
8 | 2010 | John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history. | The Walkmen | It Should Take A While | Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone |
(Historical facts about June 24 are from Wikipedia.)
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