February 03

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1534	The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.	Silkie	You've Got to Hide Your Love Away	You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
2	1637	Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.	Wilco	Forget the Flowers	Being There
3	1809	The Illinois Territory is created.	Sufjan Stevens	Kaskaskia River	The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album
4	1870	The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.	Bold	Having My Say	Speak Out
5	1947	The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.	Naked Raygun	Walk in Cold	Jettison
6	1959	A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.	American Nightmare	The Day the Music Died	American Nightmare
7	1961	The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" was always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.	Looking Glass	Brandy	Looking Glass
8	1984	John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.	Black Sabbath	Embryo	Master of Reality
9	1998	The term Open source was invented by Christine Peterson (of the Foresight Institute) at a strategy session held in Palo Alto, California.	Joan of Arc	So Open; Hooray!	How Memory Works

(Historical facts about February 03 are from Wikipedia.)