February 12

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	881	Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor	The Roots of Orchis	Fat, Furious and Fluffy	The Roots of Orchis
2	1554	A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.	The Rolling Stones	Lady Jane	Aftermath
3	1689	The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.	The Strawbs	Flight	From the Witchwood
4	1733	Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).	Blind Willie McTell	Savannah Mama	The Early Years (1927-1933)
5	1809	Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, former legal holiday in the United States	Major Organ and the Adding Machine	Powdered Abe Lincoln	Major Organ and the Adding Machine
6	1994	Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream.	Dave Greenslade	Scream but not Heard	The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
7	2001	NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.	Combatwoundedveteran	The Party Asteroid Apocalypse	I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Crime Scene Photos

(Historical facts about February 12 are from Wikipedia.)