May 06

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1527	Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.	Belle & Sebastian	Electronic Renaissance	Tigermilk
2	1659	English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.	Fleet Foxes	Your Protector	Fleet Foxes
3	1757	English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.	Smart Went Crazy	A Good Day	20 Years of Dischord
4	1844	The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.	Mirah feat. Phil Elvrum	Ice	Morning Becomes Eclectic
5	1937	Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.	Led Zeppelin	What Is and What Should Never Be	Led Zeppelin II
6	1941	The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.	A.C. Newman	Thunderbolts	Get Guilty
7	1954	Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.	The Get Up Kids	Don't Hate Me	Four Minute Mile
8	1983	The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.	Circulatory System	Diary of Wood	Circulatory System
9	1989	Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the "coaster wars".	M. Ward	Rollercoaster	Post-War

(Historical facts about May 06 are from Wikipedia.)