Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1632 | Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. | Built to Spill | Center of the Universe | Keep it Like a Secret |
2 | 1856 | The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | The Strokes | Meet Me in the Bathroom | Room on Fire |
3 | 1879 | In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores. | Current | Two and a Dime | Discography |
4 | 1889 | President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. | Stereophonics | Dakota | Language. Sex. Violence. Other? |
5 | 1904 | The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908. | The Good, the Bad, and the Queen | Kingdom of Doom | The Good, the Bad, and the Queen |
6 | 1980 | Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history. | Spoon | The Underdog | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
7 | 1997 | In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned. | Louis Armstrong | Hello, Dolly! | Hello, Dolly! |
(Historical facts about February 22 are from Wikipedia.)
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