Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 138 | Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae, he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina. | Deerhoof | Heart Failure | Apple O' |
2 | 1553 | Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. | The Rolling Stones | Lady Jane | Aftermath |
3 | 1882 | War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La ConcepciĆ³n when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears. | Annihilation Time | Annihilate | Annihilation Time |
4 | 1890 | Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. | Shalabi Effect | Wyoming | Shalabi Effect 1 |
5 | 1913 | Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States. | Mirah | Heat Gets Hotter | Storageland |
6 | 1962 | Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. | The Tornados | Telstar | Telstar |
7 | 1966 | The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary. | Har Mar Superstar | Freedom Summer | You Can Feel Me |
8 | 1997 | In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which support the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. | The Buckinghams | Where Did You Come From | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy |
(Historical facts about July 10 are from Wikipedia.)
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