10 songs for December 10th.

10 songs for December 10th.

I decided to throw some songs together for December 10th, each one with a historical reference to the date. Being the tenth day of the month, it has earned ten tracks, and each one of them will have a brief overview of the event. Hope you enjoy the fun facts.

1.Method Acting by Bright Eyes: December 10, 1903 - American film actress Una Merkel is born. Some of her features include Way Down East (1920), The Eyes of the World (1930), Daddy Long Legs (1931), and Wicked (1931).


2.Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen: December 10, 1830 - Happy Birthday Emily Dickinson! American Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and by her death in 1886, she wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems. This song is by Leonard Cohen, another American poet/musician.

3.Cigarettes and Coffee by Otis Redding:On December 10, 1967, Redding, his manager, the pilot, and four members of The Bar-Kays were killed when his airplane crashed into a Lake in Madison, Wisconsin.

4.Temptation of Adam by Josh Ritter: On December 10, 1941, during World War II, the Royal Navy capital ships were sunk by the Japanese Navy.

5.Hard Rain's Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan: December 10, 1996 - the Rwandan Genocide where hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia.

6.House Arrest by Jimmy Eat World: The single largest heist in Japanese history, that still remains unsolved, occurred on December 10, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan.

7.Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols:Bohemian Physician Joseph Škoda was born on December 10, 1805. he later became the founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna.

8.Mississippi by Bob Dylan: On December 10, 1817 Mississippi became the 20th U.S. state.

9.Imagine by John Lennon: December 10th is observed as Human Rights Day

10.Fond Farewell by Elliott Smith: December 10, 2005 Richard Pryor, an American comedian, actor and writer, died of cardiac arrest in California.