May 08

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1541	Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.	Brian Eno	By the River	Before and After Science
2	1794	Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Heads Will Roll	It's a Blitz!
3	1886	Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.	Enon	Carbonation	High Society
4	1927	Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.	Broadcast	Man is Not a Bird	Haha Sound
5	1945	World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.	Starflyer 59	Give Up the War	Leave Here a Stranger
6	1970	The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.	State of Alert	Riot	No Policy
7	1976	The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.	Boris	Looprider	New Album

(Historical facts about May 08 are from Wikipedia.)