May 01

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1707	The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.	Echo and the Bunnymen	My Kingdom	Ocean Rain
2	1753	Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.	The Intruders	I Wanna Know Your Name	From Philly with Love
3	1776	Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.	Bright Eyes	Old Soul Song for the New World Order	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
4	1840	The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.	The Postal Service	Nothing Better	Give Up
5	1844	Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second, Asia's first modern police force is established.	Caravan	Policeman	Caravan
6	1884	Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.	The Vogues	Five O'Clock World	Five O'Clock World
7	1927	The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.	Aesop Rock	Cook it Up	Bazooka Tooth
8	2003	2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".	Statistics	Accomplishment	Leave Your Name

(Historical facts about May 01 are from Wikipedia.)