June 08

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	793	Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.	Unwed Sailor & Early Day Miners	Scandinavian Comfort	Stateless
2	1789	James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.	Stereolab	Changer	Switched On, Vol. 1
3	1906	Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.	Michel Polnareff	Jardin Public	Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres
4	1949	George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.	David Bowie	1984	Diamond Dogs
5	1959	The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.	The War on Drugs	Missiles Reprise	Future Weather
6	1992	The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.	Tom Waits	The Ocean Doesn't Want Me	Bone Machine

(Historical facts about June 08 are from Wikipedia.)