February 04

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1703	In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.	Broken Social Scene	Shampoo Suicide	You Forgot it in People
2	1789	George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.	Marvin Gaye	I Want You	I Want You
3	1825	The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.	Calexico	The Book and the Canal	A Feast of Wire
4	1936	Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.	Eloy	Seeds of Creation	Metromania
5	1941	The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.	Queen	Let Me Entertain You	Jazz
6	1977	A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.	Tortoise	CTA	Urban Renewal Program
7	2004	Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.	Koufax	Social Life	Social Life

(Historical facts about February 04 are from Wikipedia.)