| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1 | 1587 | The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island is established by the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh. This Colony would become known as the "Lost Colony" | Bill Monroe | Roanoke | The Music of Bill Monroe |
| 2 | 1709 | Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. | Breaker Breaker | Shipwrecked | Out of Service |
| 3 | 1865 | President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. | Leslie Gore | You Don't Own Me | Leslie Gore Sing of Mixed-Up Hearts |
| 4 | 1884 | The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. | Sleeping at Last | A Million Charming Words | Capture |
| 5 | 1960 | Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. | Hella | City Folk Sitting, Sitting | Hold Your Horse Is |
| 6 | 1979 | The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile. | Denali | Welcome | The Instinct |
(Historical facts about February 01 are from Wikipedia.)
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