July 03

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1819	The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.	Wigwam	Save My Money & Name	Nuclear Nightclub
2	1839	The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.	Palatka	Where the Teachers Go To Learn	The End of Irony
3	1852	Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.	Rilo Kiley	The Moneymaker	Under the Blacklight
4	1890	Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.	The New Amsterdams	Idaho	Never You Mind
5	1938	World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).	Greg Ginn & the Texas Corrugators	Funky Mallard	Bent Edge
6	1969	The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.	Tripping Daisy	Rocketpop	I Am an Elastic Firecracker
7	1981	First mention in the New York Times of a disease that would later be called AIDS	Swing Kids	Disease	Discography
8	1986	U.S. President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.	The Free Design	Light My Fire (Interlude)	The Now Sound Redesigned

(Historical facts about July 03 are from Wikipedia.)