February 21st Events |
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| February 21st, 2007 (February 21 2007) | Event | Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. | |
| February 21st, 2004 (February 21 2004) | Event | The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome. | |
| February 21st, 1995 (February 21 1995) | Event | Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. | |
| February 21st, 1975 (February 21 1975) | Event | 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. | John Mitchell Quotes |
| February 21st, 1974 (February 21 1974) | Event | The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. | |
| February 21st, 1973 (February 21 1973) | Event | Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108. | |
| February 21st, 1972 (February 21 1972) | Event | President Richard Nixon visits the People s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. | |
| February 21st, 1972 (February 21 1972) | Event | The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. | |
| February 21st, 1971 (February 21 1971) | Event | The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. | |
| February 21st, 1970 (February 21 1970) | Event | Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| February 21st, 1965 (February 21 1965) | Event | Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. | Malcolm X Quotes |
| February 21st, 1960 (February 21 1960) | Event | Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Event | The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. | |
| February 21st, 1953 (February 21 1953) | Event | Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule. | James D. Watson Quotes |
| February 21st, 1952 (February 21 1952) | Event | The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| February 21st, 1952 (February 21 1952) | Event | In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) police open fire on a procession of students that was demanding the establishment of 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. | |
| February 21st, 1948 (February 21 1948) | Event | NASCAR is incorporated. | |
| February 21st, 1947 (February 21 1947) | Event | In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. | |
| February 21st, 1945 (February 21 1945) | Event | World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga. | |
| February 21st, 1937 (February 21 1937) | Event | Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman s Arrowbile. | |
| February 21st, 1937 (February 21 1937) | Event | The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| February 21st, 1925 (February 21 1925) | Event | The New Yorker publishes its first issue. | |
| February 21st, 1921 (February 21 1921) | Event | Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country s first constitution. | |
| February 21st, 1919 (February 21 1919) | Event | Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinatedied in His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. | |
| February 21st, 1918 (February 21 1918) | Event | The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. | |
| February 21st, 1916 (February 21 1916) | Event | World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. | |
| February 21st, 1912 (February 21 1912) | Event | Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. | |
| February 21st, 1893 (February 21 1893) | Event | Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device" | |
| February 21st, 1885 (February 21 1885) | Event | The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. | |
| February 21st, 1878 (February 21 1878) | Event | The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. | |
| February 21st, 1874 (February 21 1874) | Event | The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper. | |
| February 21st, 1848 (February 21 1848) | Event | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto. | Karl Marx Quotes |
| February 21st, 1842 (February 21 1842) | Event | John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. | |
| February 21st, 1804 (February 21 1804) | Event | The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales. | |
| February 21st, 1743 (February 21 1743) | Event | The premiere of George Frideric Handel s oratorio, "Samson" takes place in London. | George Frideric Handel Quotes |
| February 21st, 1613 (February 21 1613) | Event | Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. | |
| February 21st, 1543 (February 21 1543) | Event | Battle of Wayna DagaA combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn. | |
| February 21st, 1440 (February 21 1440) | Event | The Prussian Confederation is formed. | |
| February 21st, 1245 (February 21 1245) | Event | Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery. | |
| February 21st, 0362 (February 21 0362) | Event | Athanasius returns to Alexandria. | |
