Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1848 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the The Communist Manifesto. | Belle & Sebastian | Marx and Engels | I'm Waking Up to Us |
2 | 1878 | The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. | Gong | Eat that Phone Book Coda | Angel's Egg |
3 | 1918 | The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. | R.E.M. | Parakeet | Up |
4 | 1952 | The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". | Shiina Ringo | Identity | Shousou Strip |
5 | 1958 | The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. | Thom Yorke | Atoms for Peace | The Eraser |
6 | 2004 | The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome. | Joan of Arc | All Until the Greens Reveal Themselves at Dawn | Live in Chicago, 1999 |
(Historical facts about February 21 are from Wikipedia.)
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