Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 356 BC | The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson. | Dali's Car | Artemis | The Waking Hour |
2 | 1873 | At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West. | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | The Money Train | The Assassination of Jesse James |
3 | 1877 | After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia. | Depeche Mode | In Sympathy | Sounds of the Universe |
4 | 1925 | Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. | Grizzly Bear | Fine for Now | Veckatimest |
5 | 1969 | Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20th in North America). | The Police | Walking on the Moon | Reggatta de Blanc |
6 | 1983 | The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F). | Embrace Today | Cold Day in July | Fuck You I'm Edge |
(Historical facts about July 21 are from Wikipedia.)
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