February 05

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1597	A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.	Cursive	The Martyr	Domestica
2	1852	The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.	Herman's Hermits	Museum	Retrospective
3	1869	The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", was found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.	Supertramp	Goodbye Stranger	Breakfast in America
4	1917	The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.	Morrissey	Asian Rut	Kill Uncle
5	1919	Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.	Talking Heads	Artists Only	More Songs about Buildings and Food
6	1924	The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".	Braid	Pipsqueak	Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five
7	1958	A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.	TV on the Radio	Bomb Yourself	Desparate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
8	1976	The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.	Converge	Year of the Swine	When Forever Comes Crashing

(Historical facts about February 05 are from Wikipedia.)