Monday, June 6, 2011

June 6

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1683 The Ashmolean Museum in OxfordEngland, opens as the world's first university museum. The Olivia Tremor Control Another Set of Bees in the Museum Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1
2. 1833 U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train. Aislers Set The Train #1 How I Learned to Write Backwards
3. 1889 The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington. Nirvana Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle In Utero
4. 1892 Chicago El begins operation Out Hud The El Train is a Swell Train and I Don't Want to Hear You Indies Complain S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D.
5. 1933 The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States. The A-Bones Drive In Smiley Vibes & Harmony: A Tribute to Brian Wilson
6. 1939 Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead. MGMT Someone's Missing Congratulations
7. 1944 World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. Gong Ooby-Scooby Doomsday or the D-Day Dj's Got the D.D.T. Blues Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2)

(Historical facts about June 6 are from Wikipedia.)

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