February 07

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1497	The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.	Beat Happening	Bonfire	Black Candy
2	1812	The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.	Uncle Tupelo	New Madrid	Anodyne
3	1935	The classic board game Monopoly is invented.	Thick as Thieves	Get Out of Jail Free Card	Action
4	1940	The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.	The Danielson Famile	The Nose Knows	Omega Tri-Danielson
5	1944	World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.	Wolfie	Slip of a Shingle	Tall Dark Hill
6	1962	The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.	The Spiders	Ban Ban	Let's Go Spiders!

(Historical facts about February 07 are from Wikipedia.)

February 06

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1778	American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.	Hella	Republic of Rough and Ready	Hold Your Horse Is
2	1815	New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.	Eels	Railroad Man	Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
3	1843	The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).	The Moody Blues	Minstrel's Song	A Question of Balance
4	1933	The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.	Judge	Take Me Away	Bringin' It Down
5	1951	The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.	Beck	Broken Train	Midnite Vultures
6	1959	Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.	Mew	Circuitry of the Wolf	And the Glass Handed Kites
7	1989	The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.	The Kronos Quartet	The Beginning of the End	Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack

(Historical facts about February 06 are from Wikipedia.)

February 05

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1597	A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.	Cursive	The Martyr	Domestica
2	1852	The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.	Herman's Hermits	Museum	Retrospective
3	1869	The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", was found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.	Supertramp	Goodbye Stranger	Breakfast in America
4	1917	The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.	Morrissey	Asian Rut	Kill Uncle
5	1919	Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.	Talking Heads	Artists Only	More Songs about Buildings and Food
6	1924	The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".	Braid	Pipsqueak	Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five
7	1958	A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.	TV on the Radio	Bomb Yourself	Desparate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
8	1976	The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.	Converge	Year of the Swine	When Forever Comes Crashing

(Historical facts about February 05 are from Wikipedia.)

February 04

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1703	In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.	Broken Social Scene	Shampoo Suicide	You Forgot it in People
2	1789	George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.	Marvin Gaye	I Want You	I Want You
3	1825	The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.	Calexico	The Book and the Canal	A Feast of Wire
4	1936	Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.	Eloy	Seeds of Creation	Metromania
5	1941	The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.	Queen	Let Me Entertain You	Jazz
6	1977	A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.	Tortoise	CTA	Urban Renewal Program
7	2004	Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.	Koufax	Social Life	Social Life

(Historical facts about February 04 are from Wikipedia.)

February 03

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1534	The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.	Silkie	You've Got to Hide Your Love Away	You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
2	1637	Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.	Wilco	Forget the Flowers	Being There
3	1809	The Illinois Territory is created.	Sufjan Stevens	Kaskaskia River	The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album
4	1870	The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.	Bold	Having My Say	Speak Out
5	1947	The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.	Naked Raygun	Walk in Cold	Jettison
6	1959	A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.	American Nightmare	The Day the Music Died	American Nightmare
7	1961	The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" was always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.	Looking Glass	Brandy	Looking Glass
8	1984	John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.	Black Sabbath	Embryo	Master of Reality
9	1998	The term Open source was invented by Christine Peterson (of the Foresight Institute) at a strategy session held in Palo Alto, California.	Joan of Arc	So Open; Hooray!	How Memory Works

(Historical facts about February 03 are from Wikipedia.)

February 02

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1536	Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.	Mirah	The Dogs of Buenos Aires	C'mon Miracle
2	1653	New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.	The New Amsterdams	Proceed with Caution	Never You Mind
3	1848	California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.	Travis	Chinese Blues	Ode to J. Smith
4	1887	In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.	Joy Division	Shadowplay	Unknown Pleasures
5	1922	Ulysses by James Joyce is published.	Franz Ferdinand	Ulysses	Tonight
6	1925	Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.	The Flaming Lips	Race for the Prize	The Soft Bulletin
7	1935	Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.	Fleetwood Mac	Little Lies	Tango in the Night
8	1987	After the 1986 People Power Revolution the Philippines enacts a new constitution.	Q and Not U	Wonderful People	Power

(Historical facts about February 02 are from Wikipedia.)

February 01

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1587	The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island is established by the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh. This Colony would become known as the "Lost Colony"	Bill Monroe	Roanoke	The Music of Bill Monroe
2	1709	Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.	Breaker Breaker	Shipwrecked	Out of Service
3	1865	President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.	Leslie Gore	You Don't Own Me	Leslie Gore Sing of Mixed-Up Hearts
4	1884	The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.	Sleeping at Last	A Million Charming Words	Capture
5	1960	Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.	Hella	City Folk Sitting, Sitting	Hold Your Horse Is
6	1979	The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.	Denali	Welcome	The Instinct

(Historical facts about February 01 are from Wikipedia.)