August 08

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1576	The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.	Pink Floyd	Astronomy Domine	Piper at the Gates of Dawn
2	1709	Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon	The Danielson Famile	Hot Air	A Prayer for Every Hour
3	1908	Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.	Wooden Shjips	Flight	West
4	1929	The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.	Neil Young	There's a World	Harvest
5	1988	The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.	Cornershop	People Power	Handcream for a Generation
6	2000	Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.	Björk	Submarine	Medúlla

(Historical facts about August 08 are from Wikipedia.)