Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1355 | The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. | Scholastic Deth | Book Attack | Revenge of the Nerds |
2 | 1798 | Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner. | UNKLE | Invasion | Never Neverland |
3 | 1863 | The fire extinguisher is patented. | Queen | Put Out the Fire | Hot Space |
4 | 1920 | Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. | Phil Phillips and the Twilights | Sea of Love | Sea of Love |
5 | 1962 | Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | Massive Attack | Exchange | Mezzanine |
6 | 1996 | The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time. | Arcade Fire | Deep Blue | The Suburbs |
7 | 2009 | The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. | Beat Happening | Collide | Dreamy |
(Historical facts about February 10 are from Wikipedia.)
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