February 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1784	John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.	The 90 Day Men	Methodist	Gogogoairheart
2	1854	The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.	Har Mar Superstar	Let's Get This Party Kickin'	You Can Feel Me
3	1883	The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.	New Vaudeville Band	Winchester Cathedral	Winchester Cathedral
4	1928	C.V. Raman discovered Raman effect.	Wolf Parade	Shine a Light	Apologies to the Queen Mary
5	1939	The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Something's Wrong	Psychocandy
6	1953	James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).	Kirihito	D.N.A.+	Suicidal Noise Cafe
7	1998	First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.	Broadcast	Hawk	Haha Sound

(Historical facts about February 28 are from Wikipedia.)

February 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1801	Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.	Bad Brains	Banned in D.C.	Black Dots
2	1812	Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.	Dub Narcotic Sound System	(Industrial) Revolution Inclusion	Industrial Breakdown
3	1870	The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.	Windy and Carl	The Sun	Consciousness
4	1939	United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.	David Bowie	Don't Sit Down	Space Oddity
5	1940	Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14	Enon	Carbonation	High Society
6	1951	The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.	The Cure	A Short Term Effect	Pornography

(Historical facts about February 27 are from Wikipedia.)

February 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1870	In New York City a demonstration of the first pneumatic subway opens to the public.	Kikeiji	Pressure	Nagasaki Nightrider
2	1909	Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.	Utada Hikaru	Colors	Colors
3	1917	The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.	The Original Dixieland Jazz Band	Darktown Struthers Ball	Victor #A-2297
4	1946	Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.	Sonic Youth	Silver Rocket	Daydream Nation
5	1952	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.	The Smiths	Ask	Louder than Bombs
6	1971	U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.	The Turtles	Earth Anthem	The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands

(Historical facts about February 26 are from Wikipedia.)

February 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1836	Samuel Colt is granted an United States patent for the Colt revolver.	Rage Against the Machine	Revolver	Evil Empire
2	1866	Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.	7 Seconds	Rock Together (Live)	The Crew
3	1956	In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.	Lloyd Price	Personality	Mr. Personality
4	1964	Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) dethroned Sonny Liston in the Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston world heavyweight boxing title, Ali's 20th pro boxing fight and first heavyweight title.	Unwed Sailor	The Floating Waltz	Marionette and the Music Box
5	1964	North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.	Carolina Tar Heels	Got the Farm Land Blues	Anthology of American Folk Music

(Historical facts about February 25 are from Wikipedia.)

February 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1582	Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.	Bright Eyes	The Calendar Hung Itself	Fevers and Mirrors
2	1803	In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.	Replicator	Validation Complex	Replicator
3	1831	The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippicede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.	Valley of the Giants	Westworld	Valley of the Giants
4	1875	The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australianeast coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.	Cursive	Sink to the Beat	Burst and Bloom
5	1942	Battle of Los Angeles: a UFO flying over wartime Los Angeles causes a blackout order at 2:25 a.m. and attracts a barrage of anti-aircraft fire, ultimately killing 3 civilians.	Grissle	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Total Fury / Grissle split
6	1989	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the deathof The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.	Clap Your Hand Say Yeah	Satan Said Dance	Some Loud Thunder
7	1989	United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.	Stereolab	The Way Will Be Opening	Super-Electric
8	2008	Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.	Damien Jurado	Tonight I Will Retire	Ghost of David

(Historical facts about February 24 are from Wikipedia.)

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.)

February 22

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1632	Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.	Built to Spill	Center of the Universe	Keep it Like a Secret
2	1856	The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.	The Strokes	Meet Me in the Bathroom	Room on Fire
3	1879	In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.	Current	Two and a Dime	Discography
4	1889	President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.	Stereophonics	Dakota	Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
5	1904	The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.	The Good, the Bad, and the Queen	Kingdom of Doom	The Good, the Bad, and the Queen
6	1980	Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.	Spoon	The Underdog	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
7	1997	In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.	Louis Armstrong	Hello, Dolly!	Hello, Dolly!

(Historical facts about February 22 are from Wikipedia.)