Emmylou Harris' "The Ballad of Sally Rose" released on this day in February 1985.
#EmmylouHarris #TheBalladOfSallyRose #VintageVinyl

February 24, 1983 - A congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, calling it a "grave injustice."
#ExecutiveOrder9066 #WWIIInternment

February 24, 2012 - Syndicated talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh began a three-broadcast-day-long campaign attacking Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke (rhymes with book) for her testimony before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

The previous week she had been invited to testify on the subject of federal requirements for contraceptive coverage in health insurance policies before the Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Instead, Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) declared her testimony inappropriate (she is past president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice), instead hearing from five men. Committee member Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked, “Where are the women?”

Fluke talked about the high cost of contraception and the non-pregnancy-related importance of such medications for some women.

Limbaugh spent six hours on air demeaning her personally and derided her as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

#SandraFluke

@Oyu_Fka Did the same before my initial response.

@Oyu_Fka Interesting question. I'm afraid that is above my pay grade.

February 22, 1943

Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.

There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.

Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.

#SophieScholl

"Charlie don't surf!"

February 12, 1909 - The NAACP was founded by sixty Americans, both black and white, in a call to safeguard civil, legal, economic, human, and political rights of black Americans.

The call was partly in reaction to a race riot in 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, home of Abraham Lincoln. The call was issued on the centennial of his birth, and principally written by Oswald Garrison Villard, president of the N.Y. Evening Post Company: "If Mr. Lincoln could revisit this country in the flesh, he would be disheartened and discouraged.”

#NAACP

"Pieces of the Sky" by Emmylou Harris released this day in 1975.
#EmmylouHarris #PiecesOfTheSky #VintageVinyl

#EverybodyKnows

Lucinda Williams' "The Ghosts of Highway 20" released on this day in 2016.
#LucindaWilliams #TheGhostsOfHighway20

William S. Burroughs born this day in 1914. Happy birthday Bill.
#WilliamSBurroughs

#MikeLuckovich 2/5/2026

Born this day in 1934 Henry Louis Aaron. Better known as "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank".
#HankAaron #MLB

The Replacements' "Don’t Tell A Soul" released this day in 1989.
#TheReplacements #DontTellASoul #VintageVinyl

February 1, 1968 - Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executed Nguyen Van Lem, suspected leader of a National Liberation Front (NLF aka Viet Cong) assassination platoon, with a pistol shot to the head on the street. AP photojournalist Eddie Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the incident became one of the most famous, ubiquitous and lasting images of the war in Vietnam, affecting international and American public opinion regarding the war.

#NguyenVanLemExecution

"Dookie" by Green Day released on this day in 1994.
#GreenDay #Dookie

Andy Harris went to see "Melania" so you don't have to.

Snow Day 1/31/2026