Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 558 | In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt. | The Church | Dome | Priest = Aura |
2 | 1429 | Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War. | !!! | When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Karazzee | Louden Up Now |
3 | 1847 | The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | The Jazz June | The Medicine | The Medicine |
4 | 1895 | In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day. | Stars | My Radio (FM Mix) | Nightsongs |
5 | 1946 | Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees. | Sonny & Cher | Baby Don't Go | Baby Don't Go |
6 | 1952 | The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer. | The Smiths | I Started Something I Couldn't Finish | Strangeways, Here We Come |
7 | 1992 | Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada. | múm/Sjon | The Hamburger That I Ordered | MotorLab #2 |
8 | 2007 | Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. | Mogwai | Like Herod (Alec Empire's Face the Future Remix) | Kicking a Dead Pig |
(Historical facts about May 07 are from Wikipedia.)
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