February 13

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1867	Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.	The Essex Green	Sorry River	The Long Goodbye
2	1880	Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.	The Cure	A Short Term Effect	Pornography
3	1955	Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.	Savae	Rannanu ((Sing with Joy) - Chant from the Dead Sea Scrolls)	Ancient Echoes
4	1960	Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.	The Moody Blues	Lunch Break: Peak Hour	Days of Future Passed
5	1961	A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.	Stereolab	Spark Plug	Emperor Tomato Ketchup
6	1970	Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath
7	1981	A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.	The A-team	Sewer Rats	Sewer Rats
8	2000	The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.	The Coasters	Charlie Brown	Charlie Brown
9	2004	The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".	The Beatles	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
10	2008	Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.	Morrissey	Suedehead	Viva Hate

(Historical facts about February 13 are from Wikipedia.)