The History Lesson is a weekly feature here on Out the Other,
offering one historical tidbit for every day of the upcoming week,
paired with a song that usually has nothing to do with history. Check
out last week here, and all previous weeks here.
June 25, 1788 - Virginia ratifies the Constitution, and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
Gomez - "Sweet Virginia"
(from Split the Difference)
June 26, 1819 - The first US patent for a bicycle designed is awarded to William Clarkson of New York.
Black Mountain - "Bicycle Man"
(from Druganaut)
June 27, 1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield Town in North London.
Hard-Fi - "Cash Machine"
(from Stars of CCTV)
June 28, 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, and his wife Sophia are assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist, precipitating the Austrian declaration of war against Serbia, which triggered World War I.
Franz Ferdinand - "Outsiders"
(from You Could Have It So Much Better)
June 29, 1979 - Guitarist and Little Feat founder Lowell George is found dead of a heart attack in a hotel room in Arlington, VA, at the age of 24.
Little Feat - "Dixie Chicken"
(from Dixie Chicken)
June 30, 1859 - Jean-Francois Gravelet, a Frenchman known professionally as Emile Blondin, becomes the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
July 1, 1979 - Sony debuts the Walkman in Japan.
The Walkmen - "We've Been Had"
(from Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone)
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