Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1536 | Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali. | Electric Light Orchestra | Eldorado | Eldorado |
2 | 1593 | Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. | OOIOO | Switch | OOIOO |
3 | 1788 | Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550). | Mozart | Symphony No. 40 | The Greatest Hits |
4 | 1853 | Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. | Robert Wyatt | Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road | Rock Bottom |
5 | 1868 | Wyoming becomes a United States territory. | The Lucksmiths | Wyoming | A Good Kind of Nervous |
6 | 1893 | The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time. | Beirut | The Canals of Our City | Gulag Orkestar |
7 | 1946 | At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. | Gary Lewis & the Playboys | Everybody Loves a Clown | Best of Gary Lewis & the Playboys |
8 | 1965 | Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. | Bob Dylan | Like a Rolling Stone | The Best of Bob Dylan |
(Historical facts about July 25 are from Wikipedia.)
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