June 4

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	781 BC	The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.	Stuart Davis	Eclipse	Bright Apocalypse
2.	1783	The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).	Aislers Set	Balloon Song	Last Match
3.	1876	An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.	R.E.M.	High Speed Train	Around the Sun
4.	1896	Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.	Iron and Wine	God Made the Automobile	Around the Well
5.	1939	Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Naziconcentration camps.	Van der Graaf Generator	Refugees	The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
6.	1957	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.	Sportswear	The Power to Change	Buidling, Dwelling, Thinking
7.	1974	During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.	Municipal Waste	Drunk as Shit	Waste Em All

(Historical facts about June 4 are from Wikipedia.)