October 22

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	362	A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch.	Hum	Apollo	Heavenward
2.	1383	The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil warand disorder.	Japandroids	The Boys are Leaving Town	Post-Nothing
3.	1797	One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jum	Coldplay	Parachutes	Parachutes
4.	1907	Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.	Black Flag	Depression	Damaged
5.	1934	In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.	The Byrds	Pretty Boy Floyd	Sweetheart of the Rodeo
6.	1964	Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.	Adult.	Nausea	Resuscitation
7.	1966	The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).	The Supremes	You Can't Hurry Love	The Supremes A' Go Go

(Historical facts about October 22 are from Wikipedia)

October 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1854	Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.	Haymarket Riot	Goodnight Nurse	Endless Bummer
2.	1867	Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requiresNative American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.	Zola Jesus	Manifest Destiny	Stridulum II
3.	1879	Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).	The Caribbean	Bulbs & Switches	History's First Know it All
4.	1944	The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200 kilograms (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.	The Impossibles	Kamikaze	Anthology '94-'98
5.	1959	President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.	Cap'n Jazz	We Are Scientists!	Alphabetapolothology II
6.	1983	The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.	Interpol	Length of Love	Antics

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October 20

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1818	The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.	Braid	Bridge to Canada	Movie Music Vol. 2
2.	1935	The Long March ends.	Neutral Milk Hotel	Marching Theme	On Avery Island
3.	1944	Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.	The Cardigans	Explode	Gran Turismo
4.	1947	The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.	Reagan Youth	Jesus was a Communist	A Collection of Pop Classics
5.	1984	The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.	Eric Burdon & the Animals	Monterey	The Best of Eric Burdon & the Animals

(Historical facts about October 20 are from Wikipedia)

October 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1216	King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.	Andreas Scholl	King Henry	English Folksongs & Lute Songs
2.	1512	Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).	Foreigner	Soul Doctor	The Very Best...and Beyond
3.	1873	Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.	Phoenix	School's Rules	United
4.	1959	The first discothèque opens.	Yoshinori Sunahara	Clipper's Discotheque Break	Clipper's Discotheque Break
5.	1962	Evander Holyfield, American boxer	Morrissey	Boxers	Moz Angeles

(Historical facts about October 19 are from Wikipedia)

October 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1356	Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.	The Temptations	Shakey Ground	Gold Disc 2
2.	1599	Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.	Naked Raygun	Home of the Brave	All Rise
3.	1648	Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.	Envy	Your Shoes and the World to Come	All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
4.	1767	Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.	The Carter Family	My Dixie Darling
5.	1867	United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state asAlaska Day.	The Moutain Goats	Going To Alaska	Taboo VI: the Homecoming
6.	1898	United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.	The 6ths	Puerto Rico Way	Wasps' Nests
7.	1929	Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.	Mirah	Person Person	You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This

(Historical facts about October 18 are from Wikipedia)

October 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	539 BC	King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.	The Byrds	Chimes of Freedom	Mr. Tambourine Man
2.	1604	Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.	Circulatory System	Stars	Circulatory System
3.	1814	London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.	The Get Up Kids	Beer for Breakfast	Eudora
4.	1931	Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.	The Beatles	Taxman	Revolver
5.	1933	Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S..	Honeywell	Genius	Electric Kool Aid
6.	N/A	National Edge Day (Straight edge movement)	Minor Threat	Straight Edge	Minor Threat

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October 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1843	Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.	Outkast	Skew it on the Bar-B	Aquemini
2.	1846	William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.	Paint It Black	Anesthesia	CVA
3.	1859	John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.	John Brown Battery	Postcard from the Edge of Penn	The Only Normal People are the Ones You Don't Know that Well
4.	1869	The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".	Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't	Big Giant	Individualized
5.	1916	Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.	The Impossibles	Plan B	Anthology '94-'98
6.	1995	The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.	The Raincoats	You're a Million	The Raincoats
7.	N/A	World Food Day (International)	The Paper Chase	Who Can Deny How Delicious It Tastes?	Ctrl Alt Del U

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