On This Date in History

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Wow! Twenty years ago.

Originally posted by FMF
Anyone who was born on 14 February 1996 is now 20 years old.

Originally posted by FMF
10 February 1979

Grateful Dead

at the Great Western Forum - Inglewood, CA

Set 1:
Feel Like A Stranger
Franklin's Tower
Walkin' Blues
To Lay Me Down
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Friend Of The Devil
Let It Grow

Set 2:
Just A Little Light
Truckin'
Crazy Fingers
Playin' In The Band
Drums
The Wheel
Gimme Some Lovin'
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
It's All Over Now Baby Blue

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Website attribution, please.

Twenty five years ago today

15th February 1991

Phish at The Colonial Theatre, Keene, New Hampshire

Set 1 (according to phish.net): The Curtain > Wilson > Divided Sky, Split Open and Melt, Fee -> Buried Alive, The Mango Song, The Sloth, Dinner and a Movie, Magilla, Llama ~ Set 2: David Bowie, Bathtub Gin, Ya Mar, Guelah Papyrus, My Sweet One > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag, Harry Hood, Let's Go > Terrapin > Let's Go, Chalk Dust Torture, Caravan > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Contact, Golgi Apparatus

February 17

In 1815, the United States and Britain exchanged the instruments of ratification
for the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
February 17

In 1815, the United States and Britain exchanged the instruments of ratification
for the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
I wonder ... did Canada celebrate?
Stees? Are you there?

18th February 2015

My neighbour had workmen rip up the road on the south side of my house without having OK'd it with the elected neighbourhood chief (or at least informing him) in order to replace loose and noisy paving stones. When the work was finished, the new paving soon collapsed into cavities in the insufficiently compacted soil beneath. The neighbour went on to come last in a local election. All politics is local politics, they say.

Originally posted by FMF
Grateful Dead set lists are all over the internet. Dozens of sites. I took this one from a spreadsheet I have.

18th February 1971

Grateful Dead @ Port Chester, New York

Set 1:
Bertha
Truckin'
It Hurts Me Too
Loser
Greatest Story Ever Told
Johnny B. Goode
Mama Tried
Hard To Handle
Dark Star
Wharf Rat
Dark Star
Me And My Uncle

Set 2:
Casey Jones
Playin' In The Band
Me And Bobby McGee
Candyman
Big Boss Man
Sugar Magnolia
St. Stephen
Not Fade Away
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
Uncle John's Band

A magnificent show, by the way, which the band kindly put out into the public domain for free. If anyone wants to hear it, feel free to PM me, and I will make sure you get a copy. The Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Dark Star in Set 1 is sublime.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
The big celebrations were strangely absent last year for the bicentennial!
It is the war the US and UK would rather forget isn't it?

I wonder ... did Canada celebrate?
Stees? Are you there?

23rd Feb 1885
French win the Battle of Đồng Đăng .
Apparently it was a right ding dong.

23/2/1945: Canadian troops occupy Kalkar.

28th of February 1916: Henry James dies.