Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1553 | Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic. | Aidan John Moffat | Less Than Three | Ten Short Songs |
2 | 1831 | Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia. | Badly Drawn Boy | I Need a Sign | How Did I Get Here? |
3 | 1898 | Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. | John Cage | 4'33" | John Cage |
4 | 1913 | First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley. | Mira | Stainless | Apart |
5 | 1920 | Polish-Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated. | Queen | The Miracle | The Miracle |
6 | 1942 | Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project. | Flash | Manhattan Morning | Out of Our Hands |
7 | 1969 | The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon. | Stereolab | Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious | Dots and Loops |
(Historical facts about August 13 are from Wikipedia.)
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