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February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 313 days remaining, 314 in leap years .
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria .
1440 - The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1543 - Battle of Wayna Daga - A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeated a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn .
1613 - Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly , beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia .
1743 - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel 's oratorio , "Samson ".
1804 - The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales .
1842 - John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine .
1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto .
1874 - The Oakland Daily Tribune newspaper .
1878 - The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut .
1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1893 - Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps " and for a "Stop Device "
1907 - 125 people perish when the s.s. Berlin sinks near Hoek van Holland .
1916 - World War I : In France the Battle of Verdun begins.
1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo .
1925 - The New Yorker 1937 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car , Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile .
1937 - The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers " in the Spanish Civil War .
1943 - Battle of Guadalcanal ended.
1945 - World War II : Japanese Kamikaze planes sink escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga .
1947 - In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera ", the Polaroid Land Camera , to a meeting of the Optical Society of America .
1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 - The British government , under Winston Churchill , abolishes Identity Cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 - In Dhaka , East Pakistan (present Bangladesh ) police opened fire on a procession of students, who demanded the establishment Bengali as the official language , killing four people and starting a country-wide protest which led to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan. The day was later declared as "International Mother Language Day " by UNESCO .
1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba .
1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam .
1970 - Swissair Flight 330 : A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich , Switzerland .
1971 - The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna .
1972 - President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations .
1972 - The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon .
1973 - Over the Sinai Desert , Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
1974 - The long-running Japanese comic strip "Sazae-san " publishes its final installment in the Asahi Shimbun 1974 - The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal in carrying out a truce with Egypt .
1975 - Watergate scandal : Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1986 - Nintendo releases The Legend of Zelda .
1988 - Jimmy Swaggart , on his own televangelism program being taped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana , confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be temporarily leaving the pulpit
1995 - Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria ; 4 guards and 96 prisoners killed in a day and a half.
1995 - Ibrahim Ali , a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by three far right National Front activists.
1995 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan , Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon .
2000 - David Letterman returns to The Late Show heart bypass surgery.
2004 - The first European political party organization, the European Greens , is established in Rome .
2007 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office.
Births 1484 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535 )
1556 - Sethus Calvisius , German calendar reformer (d. 1615 )
1675 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl , Bavarian politician (d. 1750 )
1688 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741 )
1705 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke , British naval officer (d. 1781 )
1721 - John McKinly , American physician (d. 1796 )
1723 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil , French historian (d. 1808 )
1728 - Tsar Peter III of Russia , husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762 )
1791 - Carl Czerny , Austrian composer (d. 1857 )
1794 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna , Mexican president (d. 1876 )
1801 - John Henry Newman , English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890 )
1817 - Jose Zorrilla y Moral , Spanish dramatist (d. 1893 )
1821 - Charles Scribner , American publisher (d. 1871 )
1836 - Léo Delibes , French composer (d. 1891 )
1844 - Charles-Marie Widor , French composer (d. 1937 )
1860 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod , Czech journalist (d. 1927 )
1865 - John Haden Badley , English school founder (d. 1967 )
1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn , German millionaire (d. 1934 )
1875 - Jeanne Calment , French supercentenarian and longest-lived human on record (d. 1997 )
1876 - Pyotr Konchalovsky , Russian painter (d. 1956 )
1878 - The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville in India (d. 1973 )
1880 - Waldemar Bonsels , German writer (d. 1952 )
1885 - Sacha Guitry , Russian dramatist (d. 1957 )
1893 - Celia Lovsky , Russian-born actress (d. 1979 )
1893 - Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist (d. 1987 )
1895 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976 )
1900 - Madeleine Renaud , French theater actress (d. 1994 )
1903 - Fairfax M. Cone , American advertising executive (d. 1977 )
1903 - Anaïs Nin , French writer (d. 1977 )
1903 - Raymond Queneau , French poet and novelist (d. 1976 )
1907 - W. H. Auden , English poet (d. 1973 )
1910 - Douglas Bader , British pilot (d. 1982 )
1910 - Carmine Galante , Italian-born gangster (d. 1979 )
1910 - Eddie Waring , British sports commentator (d. 1986 )
1915 - Ann Sheridan , American actress (d. 1967 )
1917 - Lucille Bremer , American actress (d. 1996 )
1924 - Robert Mugabe first President of Zimbabwe
1925 - Sam Peckinpah , American director (d. 1984 )
1927 - Erma Bombeck , American humorist (d. 1996 )
1927 - Hubert de Givenchy , French fashion designer
1927 - Pierre Mercure , French Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966 )
1929 - Roberto "Chespirito" Carlos Bolanõs , Mexican actor
1933 - Nina Simone , American singer (d. 2003 )
1934 - Rue McClanahan , American actress
1935 - Mark McManus , Scottish actor (d. 1994 )
1935 - Jean Pelletier , French Canadian political operative
1936 - Barbara Jordan , American politician (d. 1996 )
1937 - King Harald V of Norway
1937 - Gary Lockwood , American actor
1940 - John Lewis , American politician
1941 - James Wong , Hong Kong composer (d. 2004 )
1942 - Margarethe von Trotta , German actor
1943 - David Geffen , American record producer
1945 - Paul Newton , British musician (Uriah Heep )
1946 - Tyne Daly , American actress
1946 - Anthony Daniels , British actor
1946 - Alan Rickman , English actor
1946 - Bob Ryan , Boston sports columnist
1946 - Vito Rizzuto , Sicilian-born alleged mafia boss
1947 - Olympia Snowe , American politician
1947 - Victor Sokolov , Russian journalist (d. 2006 )
1949 - Jerry Harrison , American musician (Talking Heads )
1949 - Ronnie Hellström , Swedish footballer
1951 - Vince Welnick , American musician (The Grateful Dead ) (d. 2006 )
1952 - Jean Jacques Burnel , British musician (The Stranglers )
1953 - Christine Ebersole , American actress
1953 - William Petersen , American actor
1955 - Sir Steven Fayburgh , British diplomat
1955 - Kelsey Grammer , American actor
1958 - Jake Burns , Irish singer (Stiff Little Fingers }
1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter , American singer
1958 - Jack Coleman , American actor
1958 - Alan Trammell , baseball player and manager
1959 - José María Cano , Spanish musician (Mecano )
1959 - Emmett McAuliffe , KMOX radio show host and lawyer
1961 - Davey Allison , American race car driver (d. 1993 )
1961 - Christopher Atkins , American actor
1961 - Martha Hackett , American actress
1961 - Bertha Faye , American wrestler (d. 2001 )
1962 - Vanessa Feltz , British television presenter
1962 - David Foster Wallace , American writer
1962 - Chuck Palahniuk , American writer
1963 - William Baldwin , American actor
1967 - Leroy Burrell , American runner
1969 - Eric Wilson , American musician (Sublime )
1969 - James Dean Bradfield , Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers )
1970 - Michael Slater , Australian cricketer
1972 - Seo Taiji , Korean musician
1973 - Heri Joensen , Faroese musician, (Týr )
1973 - Bowie Tsang , Taiwanese singer, actress, TV host and author.
1974 - Iván Campo , Spanish footballer
1974 - Roberto Heras , Spanish cyclist
1975 - Affirmed , American race horse (d. 2001 )
1976 - Ryan Smyth , Canadian hockey player
1977 - Steve Francis , American basketball player
1977 - Kevin Rose , American television host and Internet entrepreneur
1977 - Chad Hutchinson , baseball and football player
1978 - Park Eun-hye , South Korean actress
1978 - Kim Ha Neul , South Korean actress
1978 - Nicole Parker , American actress
1979 - Pascal Chimbonda , French footballer
1979 - Carly "Carlito" Colón , Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1979 - Lonnie Ford , American football player
1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt , American actress
1980 - Brad Fast , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Tiziano Ferro , Italian singer
1983 - Braylon Edwards , American football player
1984 - Andrew Ellis , New Zealand rugby union player
1984 - David Odonkor , German footballer
1985 - Georgios Samaras , Greek footballer
1986 - Charlotte Church , Welsh singer
1987 - Anthony Walker , British murder victim (d. 2005 )
1987 - Ellen Page , Canadian actress
1988 - Daniel Rose , English footballer
1989 - Kristin Herrera , American actress
1989 - Corbin Bleu , American actor and singer
Deaths 1437 - King James I of Scotland (b. 1394 )
1471 - John of Rokycan , Czech Catholic archbishop
1513 - Pope Julius II (b. 1443 )
1543 - Ahmed Gragn , Sultan of Adal
1554 - Hieronymus Bock , German botanist (b. 1498 )
1595 - Robert Southwell , English Jesuit priest and poet (executed)
1668 - John Thurloe , English Puritan spy (b. 1616 )
1677 - Baruch Spinoza , Dutch philosopher (b. 1632 )
1715 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore , Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637 )
1788 - Johann Georg Palitzsch , German astronomer (b. 1723 )
1821 - Georg Friedrich von Martens , German diplomat (b. 1756 )
1824 - Eugène de Beauharnais , son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781 )
1846 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800 )
1862 - Justinus Kerner , German poet (b. 1786 )
1901 - George Francis FitzGerald , Irish mathematician (b. 1851 )
1920 - Jacinta Marto , witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910 )
1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853 )
1938 - George Ellery Hale , American astronomer (b. 1868 )
1941 - Frederick Banting , Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891 )
1944 - Ferenc Szisz , Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873 )
1945 - Eric Liddell , Scottish runner (b. 1902 )
1946 - José Streel , Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911 )
1960 - Jacques Becker , French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906 )
1965 - Malcolm X , American black activist (b. 1925 )
1966 - Paul Comtois , French Canadian politician (b. 1895 )
1967 - Charles Beaumont , American writer (b. 1929 )
1968 - Howard Walter Florey , Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898 )
1972 - Bronislava Nijinska , Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891 )
1972 - Eugène Tisserant , French Catholic candinal (b. 1884 )
1974 - Tim Horton , Canadian hockey player (b. 1930 )
1978 - Mieczysław Żywczyński , Polish historian and priest (b. 1901 )
1982 - Murray the K , American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922 )
1984 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov , Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905 )
1985 - Louis Hayward , British actor (b. 1909 )
1986 - Helen Hooven Santmyer , American writer (b. 1895 )
1986 - Shigechiyo Izumi , Japanese sugarcane farmer, also the world's oldest man ever (b. 1865 )
1989 - Alex Thépot , French footballer (b. 1906 )
1991 - Dame Margot Fonteyn , English ballet dancer (b. 1919 )
1996 - Morton Gould , American composer (b. 1913 )
1999 - Gertrude B. Elion , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918 )
1999 - Wilmer David Mizell , baseball player (b. 1930 )
2000 - Antonio Díaz-Miguel , Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933 )
2002 - John Thaw , English actor (b. 1942 )
2002 - Harold Furth , Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939 )
2003 - Eddie Thomson , Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947 )
2004 - John Charles , Welsh footballer (b. 1931 )
2004 - Guido Molinari , Canadian artist (b. 1933 )
2005 - Ara Berberian , American opera singer (b. 1930 )
2005 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Cuban novelist (b. 1929 )
2005 - Eugene Scott , American religious broadcaster (b. 1929 )
2005 - Gérard Bessette , Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920 )
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