| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1 | 1807 | Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. | The Beach Boys | Steamboat | Holland |
| 2 | 1907 | Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened. | Broken Social Scene | Marketfresh | Beehives |
| 3 | 1908 | Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris. | The Olivia Tremor Control | Black Foliage (Animation 1) | Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 |
| 4 | 1953 | Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California. | Porcupine Tree | Pure Narcotic | Stupid Dream |
| 5 | 1959 | Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. | M83 | On a White Lake Near a Green Mountain | Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| 6 | 1970 | Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). | Arab Strap | Amor Veneris | The Red Thread |
| 7 | 1978 | Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. | Iron Maiden | Where Eagles Dare | Piece of Mind |
| 8 | 1980 | Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history. | The Feud | Sometimes...Few Dingo | Versus Yr Universe |
| 9 | 2008 | Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games. | Sufjan Stevens | A Winner Needs a Wand | A Sun Came! |
(Historical facts about August 17 are from Wikipedia.)
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