Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1284 | The legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany | The Beach Boys | I'm the Pied Piper | Holland |
2 | 1870 | The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. | Miami Horror | Holidays | Illumination |
3 | 1927 | The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. | Mercury Rev | Coney Island Cyclone | Yerself is Steam |
4 | 1934 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. | Hot Snakes | If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit | Automatic Midnight |
5 | 1948 | Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine. | Discordance Axis | Carcass Lottery | Jouhou |
6 | 1997 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. | Georges Brassens | Le Pornographe | Le Pornographe |
7 | 2008 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional. | Japancakes | Handguns and Firearms | Belmondo |
(Historical facts about June 26 are from Wikipedia.)
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