January 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	971	In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.	Yo La Tengo	How to Make a Baby Elephant Float	Summer Sun
2	1510	Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.	Saturday Looks Good to Me	No Good with Secrets	All Your Summer Songs
3	1556	The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.	The Temptations	Shakey Ground	A Song for You
4	1656	Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.	Seki	Selected Letters	Before the Last Song at Wounded Hill
5	1849	Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.	The Outsiders	Doctor	Complete Polydor Tapes
6	1897	Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.	The Unicorns	Tuff Ghost	Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
7	1941	Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.	The Get Up Kids	The Worst Idea	On a Wire
8	1960	The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.	Sportswear	It Runs Deep	It Runs Deep

(Historical facts about January 23 are from Wikipedia.)

January 22

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1521	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, opens the Diet of Worms.	The Olivia Tremor Control	Do You Like Worms? (Do You Dig Worms?)	Smiling Pets: A Tribute to the Beach Boys
2	1877	Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.	Wolf Parade	Call it a Ritual	At Mount Zoomer
3	1889	Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.	Oasis	Columbia	Definitely Maybe
4	1915	Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.	Fountains of Wayne	Fire in the Canyon	Traffic and Weather
5	1946	Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.	Milemarker	Internet Relay Chat with the Central Intelligence Agency	Frigid Forms Sell
6	1947	KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.	Beck	Hollywood Freaks	Midnight Vultures
7	1973	The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.	Cyclops	Abortions for All	Demo
8	1984	The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.	David Bowie	1984	Diamond Dogs
9	1999	Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.	Articles of Faith	Buried Alive	Master Tape Compilation
10	2002	Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.	Superdrag	Bankrupt Vibration	Head Trip in Every Key

(Historical facts about January 22 are from Wikipedia.)

January 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1525	The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.	The Get Up Kids	Coming Clean	Four Minute Mile
2	1789	The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.	Kind of Like Spitting	Passionate	Bridges Worth Burning
3	1793	After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.	Morrissey	Margaret On the Guillotine	Viva Hate
4	1861	American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.	Hey Mercedes	Quit	Everynight Fire Works
5	1908	New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.	Braid	My Baby Smokes	Age of Octeen
6	1931	Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.	Mirah and the Black Cat Orchestra	Story of Isaac	To All We Stretch the Open Arm
7	1954	The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.	Apples in Stereo	Submarine Dream	The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
8	1960	Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.	Kojima Mayumi	My Monkey No Satogaeri	Me and My Monkey On the Moon
9	1968	A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.	The B-52's	Party Out of Bounds	Wild Planet
10	1971	The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.	Curved Air	U.H.F.	Air Cut
11	1977	President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.	Dodgin Bullets	Tomorrow the World Will Change Forever	Earn Your Respect
12	1981	Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.	John Vanderslice	Time Travel is Lonely	Time Travel is Lonely
13	2004	NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.	Brainiac	Flash Ram	Electro-Shock for President

(Historical facts about January 21 are from Wikipedia.)

January 20

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	250	Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred.	Judas Priest	Persecution	Nostradamus
2	1502	The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.	Os Mutantes	Rio De Janeiro	Ao Vivo
3	1788	The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.	Broken Social Scene	Prison Province	Feel Good Lost
4	1885	L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.	13th Floor Elevators	Roller Coaster	All Time Highs
5	1929	In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.	Broadcast	Look Outside	The Noise Made by People
6	1934	Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.	Starflyer 59	I LIke Your Photographs	Leave Here a Stranger
7	1961	John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the youngest elected and first Roman Catholic President of the U.S. His inaugural address is one of the most memorable of the 20th century.	The Alan Price Set	The House That Jack Built	The House That Jack Built

(Historical facts about January 20 are from Wikipedia.)

January 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1419	Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.	The Cure	One Hundred Years	Pornography
2	1764	John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.	Heroin	Leave	Heroin
3	1829	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.	Radiohead	Faust Arp	In Rainbows
4	1853	Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.	London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus	Anvil Chorus, Il Trovatore, Act II	Great Opera Choruses
5	1883	The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.	The Microphones	Wires and Cords	Tests
6	1893	Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.	Gong	Master Builder	You (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 3)
7	1915	Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.	Björk	All Neon Like	Homogenic
8	1935	Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.	Atmosphere	Brief Description	Ovecast!
9	1953	68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.	The Hollies	Rubber Lucy	Hollies
10	1969	Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.	Shai Hulud	Set Your Body Ablaze	A Profound Hatred of Man
11	1977	Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.	Foals	Miami	Total Life Forever
12	1983	The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.	Cressida	Lisa	Asylum

(Historical facts about January 19 are from Wikipedia.)

January 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1778	James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".	Braid	Brass Knuckle Sandwich	Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five
2	1788	The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.	The Shins	Australia	Wincing the Night Away
3	1884	Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.	Japandroids	Young Hearts Spark Fire	Post-Nothing
4	1903	President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Are You Ready Eddy?	Tarkus
5	1911	Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.	Denali	Where I Landed	Denali
6	1943	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.	Joy Division	Warsaw	Heart and Soul
7	1977	Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.	The Decemberists	The Legionnaire's Lament	Castaways and Cutouts
8	1981	Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).	The Rentals	Jumping Around	Seven More Minutes
9	1997	Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.	Truth	More Dangerous	Puppets

(Historical facts about January 18 are from Wikipedia.)