May 11

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1310	In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.	Andrew Bird	Heretics	Armchair Apocrypha
2	1858	Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.	Big Black	Jordan Minnesota	The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
3	1894	Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.	Sufjan Stevens	One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman	Illinoise
4	1924	Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.	A.R.E. Weapons	Black Mercedes	Street Gang
5	1987	In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.	The Upsetters	Musical Transplant (Adapted)	Dub-Triptych
6	1996	The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest .	Cold Blue	Mount Everest	In Trance 2009 Week 33
7	1997	Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.	Arcade Fire	Deep Blue	The Suburbs

(Historical facts about May 11 are from Wikipedia.)