July 06

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1189	Richard I "the Lionheart" is crowned King of England.	Belong	Different Heart	Common Era
2	1348	Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death.	Bis	Protection [Nude Mix]	Plastique Nouveau
3	1535	Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.	The Instruments	Song for Thomas	Billions of Phonographs
4	1785	The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.	Radiohead	Dollars & Cents	Amnesiac
5	1885	Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.	Mos Def	Quiet Dog Bite Hard	The Ecstatic
6	1887	David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.	7 Seconds	Bully	The Crew
7	1892	3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.	Weezer	The Good Life	Pinkerton
8	1917	World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.	Camel	Lawrence	Rajaz
9	1957	John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.	The Beatles	Got to Get You Into My Life	Revolver

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July 05

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1295	Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England.	The Geminis	A Friend of Mine	One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found
2	1687	Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, ushering in a tidal wave of changes in thought that would significantly accelerate the already ongoing scientific revolution by giving it tools that produced technologically valuable results, which had theretofore been otherwise unobtainable.	New Order	World in Motion	World in Motion
3	1937	Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.	Madvillain	Meat Grinder	Madvillainy
4	1948	National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom	Wolf Eyes	Rich and Healthy	Wolf Eyes
5	1973	Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.	The Church	A Fire Burns	Blurred Crusade
6	1996	Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.	Enon	Count Sheep	High Society
7	1998	Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.	The Savage	Space Express	Japanese Garage Bands of the 60s
8	2009	The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.	Van Dyke Parks	The All Golden	Song Cycle

(Historical facts about July 05 are from Wikipedia.)

July 04

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1054	A supernova is seen by Chinese, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.	Yuzo Kayama	Blue Stardust	Singles Collection
2	1636	City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.	Sonic Youth	Providence	Daydream Nation
3	1776	American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.	Elliott Smith	Independence Day	XO
4	1778	American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.	Sufjan Stevens	Kaskaskia River	The Avalance: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album
5	1803	The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.	PJ Harvey	The Glorious Land	Let England Shake
6	1831	Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.	Guided By Voices	My Son, My Secretary and My Country	Earthquake Glue
7	1855	In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.	The Olivia Tremor Control	I Can Smell the Leaves	Dusk at Cubist Castle
8	1862	Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.	Leon Peels & the Bluejays	Alice from Above	Doo Wop
9	1886	The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.	Of Montreal	You've Got a Gift	Cherry Peel
10	1939	Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.	The Magnetic Fields	The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side	69 Love Songs

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July 03

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1819	The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.	Wigwam	Save My Money & Name	Nuclear Nightclub
2	1839	The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.	Palatka	Where the Teachers Go To Learn	The End of Irony
3	1852	Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.	Rilo Kiley	The Moneymaker	Under the Blacklight
4	1890	Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.	The New Amsterdams	Idaho	Never You Mind
5	1938	World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).	Greg Ginn & the Texas Corrugators	Funky Mallard	Bent Edge
6	1969	The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.	Tripping Daisy	Rocketpop	I Am an Elastic Firecracker
7	1981	First mention in the New York Times of a disease that would later be called AIDS	Swing Kids	Disease	Discography
8	1986	U.S. President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.	The Free Design	Light My Fire (Interlude)	The Now Sound Redesigned

(Historical facts about July 03 are from Wikipedia.)

July 02

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1679	Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.	Space Mountain	Minnesota	Minnesota
2	1698	Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.	Modest Mouse	Steam Engenious	We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
3	1776	The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.	The Get Up Kids	Burned Bridges	The Get Up Kids / Coalesce Split
4	1839	Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.	Disaster	Unite and Take Over	With Years Left to Go
5	1897	Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.	The Black Heart Procession	Radio	Hearts and Tanks
6	1900	The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.	Area	L'abbattimento Dell Zeppelin	Arbeit Macht Frei
7	1937	Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.	Doves	Last Broadcast	Last Broadcast
8	1962	The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.	Pet Shop Boys	Shopping	Actually

(Historical facts about July 02 are from Wikipedia.)

July 01

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1770	Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.	Peter Hammill	The Comet, the Course, the Tail	In Camera
2	1837	A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.	Exclaim	Dedicated to All Records	Critical Exploder
3	1858	Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.	I Am Robot and Proud	Read and Re-read	The Catch
4	1863	American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.	Dave Greenslade	Gettysburg	Cactus Choir
5	1870	The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.	The Constantines	Justice	The Constantines
6	1874	The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.	Braid	American Typewriter	Age of Octeen
7	1881	The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.	Doves	Where We're Calling From	The Last Broadcast
8	1935	Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago's Grant Park, which continues as the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.	Dungen	Festival	Ta Det Lugnt
9	1943	Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).	Tokyo Police Club	Boots of Danger (Boys Like Us Remix)	Boots of Danger (Boys Like Us Remix)
10	1959	Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.	Moving Units	Until She Says (We are Enfant Terrible Remix)	Tension War
11	1963	ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.	Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans	Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah	Back to Mono (1958-1969)
12	1979	Sony introduces the Walkman.	The Walkmen	We've Been Had	The Walkmen

(Historical facts about July 01 are from Wikipedia.)