Monday, February 21, 2011

February 21

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the The Communist Manifesto. Belle & Sebastian Marx and Engels I'm Waking Up to Us
2 1878 The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. Gong Eat that Phone Book Coda Angel's Egg
3 1918 The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. R.E.M. Parakeet Up
4 1952 The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". Shiina Ringo Identity Shousou Strip
5 1958 The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. Thom Yorke Atoms for Peace The Eraser
6 2004 The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome. Joan of Arc All Until the Greens Reveal Themselves at Dawn Live in Chicago, 1999

(Historical facts about February 21 are from Wikipedia.)

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