Wednesday, February 23, 2011

February 23

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1455 Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. Jets to Brazil I Typed for Miles Orange Rhyming Dictionary
2 1739 Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin. Starometska Thiefcatcher Unknown
3 1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland. Rambo What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Mosh Harder Wall of Death the System
4 1886 Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall. The White Stripes Aluminum White Blood Cells
5 1905 Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club. R.E.M. Rotary Ten Dead Letter Office
6 1927 German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. Examination of the ... The Incision and Sweet Taste of Uncertainty We are the Architects of Desire
7 1947 The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded. Quasi All the Same Field Studies
8 1983 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. New Order The Beach Substance
9 1987 Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Oasis Champagne Supernova (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

(Historical facts about February 23 are from Wikipedia.)

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