| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1673 | Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River. | Cubismo Grafico | Mississippi One | Escalator Records, Tokyo |
| 2. | 1792 | The New York Stock Exchange is formed. | Massive Attack | (Exchange) | Mezzanine |
| 3. | 1849 | A fire threatens to burn St. Louis, Missouri to the ground. | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Babe, I'm On Fire | Nocturama |
| 4. | 1875 | Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby. | Francoise Hardy | Magic Horse | Alone |
| 5. | 1943 | The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC. | American Analog Set | We're Computerizing and We Just Don't Need You Anymore | Know by Heart |
| 6. | 1983 | The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Actrequest. | Takako Minekawa | Black...White | Roomic Cube |
| 7. | 1990 | The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. | Gayrilla Biscuits | Gay Til Death | The Demos |
(Historical facts about May 17 are from Wikipedia.)
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