Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1455 | Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. | Jets to Brazil | I Typed for Miles | Orange Rhyming Dictionary |
2 | 1739 | Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin. | Starometska | Thiefcatcher | Unknown |
3 | 1861 | President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland. | Rambo | What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Mosh Harder | Wall of Death the System |
4 | 1886 | Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall. | The White Stripes | Aluminum | White Blood Cells |
5 | 1905 | Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club. | R.E.M. | Rotary Ten | Dead Letter Office |
6 | 1927 | German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. | Examination of the ... | The Incision and Sweet Taste of Uncertainty | We are the Architects of Desire |
7 | 1947 | The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded. | Quasi | All the Same | Field Studies |
8 | 1983 | The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. | New Order | The Beach | Substance |
9 | 1987 | Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | Oasis | Champagne Supernova | (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
(Historical facts about February 23 are from Wikipedia.)
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