Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1189 | Richard I "the Lionheart" is crowned King of England. | Belong | Different Heart | Common Era |
2 | 1348 | Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death. | Bis | Protection [Nude Mix] | Plastique Nouveau |
3 | 1535 | Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. | The Instruments | Song for Thomas | Billions of Phonographs |
4 | 1785 | The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. | Radiohead | Dollars & Cents | Amnesiac |
5 | 1885 | Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. | Mos Def | Quiet Dog Bite Hard | The Ecstatic |
6 | 1887 | David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. | 7 Seconds | Bully | The Crew |
7 | 1892 | 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded. | Weezer | The Good Life | Pinkerton |
8 | 1917 | World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt. | Camel | Lawrence | Rajaz |
9 | 1957 | John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fĂȘte in Woolton. | The Beatles | Got to Get You Into My Life | Revolver |
(Historical facts about July 06 are from Wikipedia.)
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