December 20

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1522	Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.	XTC	Knights In Shining Karma	Apple Venus Vol. 1
2.	1803	The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.	Iron Maiden	To Tame a Land	Piece of Mind
3.	1941	World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.	Hum	Roar, I'm a Tiger	Hello Kitty
4.	1951	The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.	Rainer Maria	Artificial Light	A Better Version of Me
5.	1968	The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.	Van der Graaf Generator	Killer	H to He, Who Am the Only One
6.	1987	History's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).	The Cure	Sinking	The Head on the Door
7.	1991	A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.	Boy Sets Fire	Our Time Honored Tradition Of Cannibalism	After the Eulogy
8.	1996	NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.	xDisciplex AD	Candy Apple	Imitation of Love
9.	2005	US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District	Rites of Spring	By Design	Rites of Spring
10.	2007	Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days	Sister Elizabeth Phillips	A Little Old-Fashioned	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)

(Historical facts about December 20 are from Wikipedia.)

December 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	211	Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna.	New Order	Murder	Substance
2.	1606	The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.	The Postal Service	Brand New Colony	Give Up
3.	1828	Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.	Boduf Songs	Absolutely Null and Utterly Void	This Alone Above All Else in Spite of Everything
4.	1900	Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he was unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and was forced to resign.	The Posies	Golden Blunder	Dream All Day
5.	1941	World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.	Dave Greenslade	Mischief	The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
6.	2001	A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.	Queen and David Bowie	Under Pressure	Hot Space

(Historical facts about December 19 are from Wikipedia.)

December 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1888	Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.	Karate	The Roots and the Ruins	Unsolved
2.	1898	Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaudelectric car.	David Bowie	Speed of Life	Low
3.	1912	The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.	Beyond	Hoax	No Longer at Ease
4.	1915	U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson while president of the United States.	Of Montreal	Advice From A Divorced Gentleman To His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage	Gay Parade
5.	1932	The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Fieldto the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long.	The A-Team	Bear Trap	Clusterfuck
6.	1987	Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.	Badly Drawn Boy	Another Pearl	The Hour of Bewilderbeast
7.	N/A	International Migrants Day (International)	Led Zeppelin	Immigrant Song	Led Zeppelin III

(Historical facts about December 18 are from Wikipedia.)

December 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1577	Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.	The Church	Secret Corners	Blurred Crusade
2.	1790	Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.	Fennesz	The Stone of Impermanence	Venice
3.	1837	Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.	Elf Power	Palace of the Fire	Creatures
4.	1862	American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.	The Rites	Sound Familiar	Your Last Rites
5.	1903	The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.	Pulsar	Flight	The Strands of the Future
6.	1969	Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."	Bacamarte	UFO	Depois do Fim
7.	1989	The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.	King Crimson	Happy Family	Lizard
8.	N/A	International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (United States)	Piebald	Sex Sells And (Unfortunately) I'm Buying	We Are The Only Friends We Have

(Historical facts about December 17 are from Wikipedia.)

December 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1653	English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotlandand Ireland.	The White Stripes	This Protector	White Blood Cells
2.	1707	Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.	Beck	Volcano	Modern Guilt
3.	1773	American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Bostonharbor as a protest against the Tea Act.	Belle & Sebastian	For the Price of a Cup of Tea	The Life Pursuit
4.	1811	The first two in a series of severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These three so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today's heartland states of the United States.	Uncle Tupelo	New Madrid	Anodyne
5.	1930	Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.	Genesis	Robbery, Assault, and Battery	Trick of the Tail
6.	1937	Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.	Atomic Rooster	The Rock	In Hearing of the Atomic Rooster
7.	1997	An episode of Pokémon, "Dennō Senshi Porygon", aired in Japan induces seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.	The Locust	File Under "Soft Core Seizures"	Plague Soundscapes

(Historical facts about December 16 are from Wikipedia.)

December 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1791	The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.	The New Pornographers	My Rights Versus Yours	Challengers
2.	1939	Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.	The Microphones	I Want Wind to Blow	The Glow Pt. 2
3.	1945	Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion	R.E.M.	Losing My Religion	Out of Time
4.	1955	Jens Olsen's World Clock is started by Danish King Frederick IX and Jens Olsen's youngest grandchild Birgit.	El Guapo	Clock	Super/System
5.	1965	Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.	Modest Mouse	Space Travel is Boring	This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
6.	1973	The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.	Joy Division	Disorder	Unknown Pleasures
7.	2000	The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.	Amon Tobin	Shut Down	Monthly Joint Series
8.	2001	The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.	Bill Withers	Lean on Me	Still Bill

(Historical facts about December 15 are from Wikipedia.)

December 14

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1287	St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.	Passion Pit	Swimming in the Flood	Manners
2.	1542	Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.	The Association	Along Comes Mary	And Then...Along Comes the Association
3.	1751	The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.	No Knife	Academy Fight Song	Fire in the City of Automatons
4.	1819	Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.	The Doors	Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)	The Doors
5.	1900	Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.	Metallica	Fade to Black	Ride the Lightning
6.	1903	The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.	Pink Floyd	Learning to Fly	A Momentary Lapse of Reason
7.	1962	NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.	The B-52's	53 Miles West of Venus	Wild Planet
8.	1964	American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.	Michael Jackson	Black or White	HIStory: Past, Present and Future
9.	2008	President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalistMuntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.	Melt Banana	Last Target on the Last Day	Bambi's Dilemma

(Historical facts about December 14 are from Wikipedia.)