Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 64 | Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned. | SBTRKT | Wildfire | SBTRKT |
2 | 1701 | Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England. | Joan Baez | Banks of the Ohio | Folksinger 'Round Harvard Square |
3 | 1843 | Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. | Holding On | Turn the Screw | Question What You Live For |
4 | 1848 | Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the "Bloomers" are introduced. | Modern Life is War | Late Bloomers | My Love. My Way. |
5 | 1963 | Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. | David Bowie | Hallo Spaceboy | Outside |
6 | 1981 | In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development. | John Vanderslice | Farewell Transmission | Pixel Revolt |
7 | 1983 | The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published. | Quasi | Me & My Head | Field Studies |
(Historical facts about July 19 are from Wikipedia.)
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