September 20

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1378	Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning thePapal schism.	Cursive	Butcher the Song	Ugly Organ
2.	1519	Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.	The Pixies	All Over the World	Bossanova
3.	1633	Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.	Built to Spill	Center of the Universe	Keep It Like a Secret
4.	1848	The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.	Rilo Kiley	Science Vs. Romance	Take-Offs & Landings
5.	1946	The first Cannes Film Festival is held.	Guided by Voices	Pivotal Film	Isolation Drills

(Historical facts about September 20 are from Wikipedia)

September 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1934	Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..	J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers	Last Kiss	Last Kiss
2.	1952	The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.	Electronic	Idiot Country	Electronic
3.	1957	First American underground nuclear bomb test.	Negative FX	Nuclear Fear	Government War Plans
4.	1961	Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.	The Telescopes	Spaceships	Spaceships
5.	1970	Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of Geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.	Shai Hulud	Set Your Body Ablaze	A Profound Hatred of Man
6.	1982	Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.	Tim Kinsellas	Pioneering New Emotions	He Sang His Didn't He Dance His Did
7.	1991	Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.	Don Caballero	Details on How to Get Iceman on Your License Plate	American Don

(Historical facts about September 19 are from Wikipedia)

September 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1679	New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.	Matt Pond PA	New Hampshire	Emblems
2.	1809	The Royal Opera House in London opens.	The Olivia Tremor Control	The Opera House	Dusk at Cubist Castle
3.	1837	Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".	Audrey Hepburn	Moon River	Music from the Films of Audrey Hepburn
4.	1870	Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.	Unwed Sailor	The Faithful Anchor	The Faithful Anchor
5.	2001	First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.	Gang of Four	Anthrax	Entertainment!

(Historical facts about September 18 are from Wikipedia)

September 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	480 BC	The Battle of Thermopylae, fought between 300 Spartans, led by their king, Leonidas, and the Achaemenid Empire begins	Negative Approach	Ready to Fight	Negative Approach
2.	1630	The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.	SSD	Boston Crew	Power
3.	1686	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.	Belle and Sebastian	Simple Things	Boy with the Arab Strap
4.	1787	The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.	Map	Lay Down the Law	Secrets by the Highway
5.	1862	American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.	Joan Baez	Song in the Blood	Baptism
6.	1991	The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.	Victory at Sea	The Open Road	Carousel

(Historical facts about September 17 are from Wikipedia)

September 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1701	James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of Englandand Scotland.	The Platters	The Great Pretender	American Graffiti
2.	1812	Russians set fire to Moscow shortly after midnight – the city burns down completely days later.	The Appleseed Cast	View of a Burning City	Low Level Owl: Volume 1
3.	1908	General Motors is founded.	Sufjan Stevens	Flint (for the Unemployed and Underpaid)	Michigan
4.	1980	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.	Brainiac	Vincent Come On Down	Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
5.	1992	Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against theDeutschmark.	Soundgarden	Fell on Black Days	Superunknown

(Historical facts about September 16 are from Wikipedia)

September 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1620	Mayflower starts its voyage to the North America	The Shins	Young Pilgrims	Chutes Too Narrow
2	1831	The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.	Stillwell	The Bull Starts Here	Don't Face a Problem...Burn It
3	1916	World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.	The Constantines	Tank Commander	Shine a Light
4	1947	RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.	Piebald	Vacuum	Barely Legal
5	1959	Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.	Electronic	Soviet	Electronic
6	1966	U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.	The Pixies	There Goes My Gun	Doolittle
7.	1981	The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.	The Kinks	Last of the Steam-powered Trains	The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society

(Historical facts about September 15 are from Wikipedia)

September 14

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1682	Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.	2 Pac	Old School	Me Against the World
2.	1752	The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).	Fin Fang Foom	Yesterday Doesn't Exist	With the Gift Comes the Curse
3.	1901	President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.	Desaparecidos	What's New For Fall?	Read Music – Speak Spanish
4.	1917	Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.	The Firebird Band	Russi	Feel Alright
5.	1948	Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City.	Crippled Youth	United We Stand	Join the Fight
6.	1958	The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.	Marvin Gaye	Flyin' High (in the Friendly Sky)	What's Going On

(Historical facts about September 14 are from Wikipedia)