May 03

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1802	Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.	The Magnetic Fields	Washington D.C.	69 Love Songs, Vol. 2
2	1830	The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.	Badly Drawn Boy	Tickets to What You Need	Have You Fed the Fish?
3	1867	The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.	Japandroids	Rockers East Vancouver	Post-Nothing
4	1921	West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.	Spoon	Who Makes Your Money	Transference
5	1933	Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.	Pet Shop Boys	Opportunities (Let's Make Lost of Money)	Opportunities (Let's Make Lost of Money)
6	1948	The U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Our House	Deja Vu
7	1951	The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time.	Dirty Beaches	Horses	Badlands
8	1957	Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.	Xiu Xiu	Brooklyn Dodgers	A Promise
9	1973	The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.	Sufjan Stevens	The Seer's Tower	Illinoise

(Historical facts about May 03 are from Wikipedia.)