February 14

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1778	The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.	The Stills	Lola Stars and Stripes	Logic Will Break Your Heart
2	1849	In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.	Weezer	Photograph	Green Album
3	1899	Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.	The Mercury Program	Reinventing a Challenge for Machines	From the Vapor of Gasoline
4	1912	Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.	The Constantines	Arizona	The Constantines
5	1920	The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.	Electronic	Out of My League	Raise the Pressure
6	1929	Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.	Wesley Willis	Al Capone	Greatest Hits
7	1945	World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.	The Dresden Dolls	The Jeep Song	The Dresden Dolls
8	1961	Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.	Camel	Lawrence	Rajaz
9	1981	Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people	Takeshi Terachu	Stardust	The World Is Waiting for Terry
10	1984	Rachael Ann Jensen and Andrew Koichi Greene are born.	The Get Up KIds	Valentine	Something to Write Home About

(Historical facts about February 14 are from Wikipedia.)