Monday, May 9, 2011

May 09

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn. Venetian Snares & Speedranch Molly's Reach Around Making Orange Things
2 1874 The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes. The Radio Dept Bus Lesser Matters
3 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. Lee Hazlewood Hey Cowboy Cowboy in Sweden
4 1911 The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books. Deerhoof The Forbidden Fruits Apple O'
5 1955 Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets. Truth Puppets Puppets
6 1980 In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase. Reach the Sky The Chase Is On So Far From Home

(Historical facts about May 09 are from Wikipedia.)

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