Saturday, February 12, 2011

February 12

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor The Roots of Orchis Fat, Furious and Fluffy The Roots of Orchis
2 1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. The Rolling Stones Lady Jane Aftermath
3 1689 The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication. The Strawbs Flight From the Witchwood
4 1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day). Blind Willie McTell Savannah Mama The Early Years (1927-1933)
5 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, former legal holiday in the United States Major Organ and the Adding Machine Powdered Abe Lincoln Major Organ and the Adding Machine
6 1994 Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream. Dave Greenslade Scream but not Heard The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
7 2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. Combatwoundedveteran The Party Asteroid Apocalypse I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Crime Scene Photos

(Historical facts about February 12 are from Wikipedia.)

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