Songs That Refer To Historical Events

The Star Spangled Banner: Sung by...just about everybody (Battle Of Baltimore, Fort McHenry, 1814)(admittedly not rock&roll, unless you count Jimi Hendrix).

Helter Skelter, Fab 4️⃣

30,000 Pounds Of Bananas:  Harry Chapin (About a truck crash in Scranton PA)

Old Dan Tucker:  Bruce

Man On the Moon -- REM

For What It's Worth -- Buffalo Springfield

(about 1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots)

The Death of Emmett Till -- Bob Dylan

Her Majesty, Fab 4️⃣

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag: Country Joe & The Fish (Vietnam)

John Wesley Harding:  Dylan   (the outlaw)