April 23

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1014	Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.	Victory at Sea	A Song for Brian	The Good Night
2	1635	The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.	Belle & Sebastian	The Ghost of Rockschool	Write about Love
3	1910	Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.	Nick Drake	Man in a Shed	Five Leaves Left
4	1932	The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.	Unwed Sailor	Cuckoo Clocks the Call of the Windmill	The Marionette and the Music Box
5	1985	Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.	Piebald	New Coke	When Life Hands You Lemons
6	2009	The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe.	Electronic	Some Distant Memory	Electronic

(Historical facts about April 23 are from Wikipedia.)

April 22

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1864	The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.	The Pretty Things	Trust	S. F. Sorrow
2	1889	At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.	Yo La Tengo	Oklahoma USA	Fakebook
3	1915	The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.	9 Shocks Terror	Attack with a Gas Mask	Zen and the Art of Beating Your Ass
4	1970	The first Earth Day is celebrated.	Duran Duran	Planet Earth	Planet Earth
5	1998	Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.	Talking Heads	Animals	Fear of Music

(Historical facts about April 22 are from Wikipedia.)

April 21

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	753 BC	Romulus and Remus founded Rome (traditional date).	Sufjan Stevens	Romulus	Michigan
2	1863	Bahá'u'lláh, considered the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest".	Spiritualized	Do It Over All Again	Let it Come Down
3	1918	World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.	Tori Amos	Not the Red Baron	Boys for Pele
4	1952	Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.	The Raconteurs	Intimate Secretary	Broken Boy Soldiers
5	1982	Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.	Circulatory System	Fingers	Circulatory System
6	1994	The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.	Blur	Far Out	Parklife

(Historical facts about April 21 are from Wikipedia.)

April 20

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1534	Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.	Andy Williams	Canadian Sunset	Moon River
2	1535	The Sun Dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting "Vädersolstavlan"	Comeback Kid	Bright Lights Keep Shining	Wake the Dead
3	1657	Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).	The New Amsterdams	Hanging on for Hope	Worse for the Wear
4	1818	The case of Ashford v Thornton was concluded, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle was upheld.	Verbal Assault	Trial	Trial
5	1862	Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.	Denali	Real Heat	The Instinct
6	1865	Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.	324	Crawl in the Transparency	Boutoku No Taiyo
7	1916	The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings	Wesley Willis	Wrigley Field	Greatest Hits, Vol. 3

(Historical facts about April 20 are from Wikipedia.)

April 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1713	With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).	Bjork	Heirloom	Vespertine
2	1770	Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.	Angels of Light	Wedding	Everything is Good Here/ Please
3	1892	Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.	Parallel Pyres	Drive	II
4	1927	Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.	Neutral Milk Hotel	Song Against Sex	On Avery Island
5	1956	Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.	Piebald	Grace Kelly with Wing	All Ages
6	1987	The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show	Leon Kompowsky & Bart Simpson	Happy Birthday Lisa	Stark Raving Dad
7	1995	Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.	John Vanderslice	Bomb in Reverse	MGM Endings

(Historical facts about April 19 are from Wikipedia.)

April 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1738	Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.	Atmosphere	History	Seven's Travels
2	1775	American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.	Paul Revere & the Raiders	The Legend of Paul Revere	Greatest Hits
3	1909	Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.	Henry Burr	Joan of Arc	Columbia A2273 77044
4	1923	Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built," opens.	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	Yankee Go Home	Some Loud Thunder
5	1930	BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.	Bonnie "Prince" Billy	No Bad News	The Letting Go
6	1958	A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.	Queen	Stone Cold Crazy	Sheer Heart Attack

(Historical facts about April 18 are from Wikipedia.)

April 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1397	Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.	Belle & Sebastian	Storytelling	Storytelling
2	1907	The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.	Q and Not U	Wonderful People	Power
3	1912	Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.	Bright Eyes	Gold Mine Gutted	Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
4	1949	At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.	New Order	Times Change	Republic
5	1970	Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.	1 Mile North	Return to From Where We Came	Minor Shadows
6	1986	The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.	Hella	Been a Long Time Cousin	Hold Your Horse Is

(Historical facts about April 17 are from Wikipedia.)