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What Happened on February 21st This Day in History

Year	Name
452453	Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
2022	In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.
2013	At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
1995	Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
1994	Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
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.
1974	The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1973	Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
1972	United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972	The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1971	The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1965	Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
1958	The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1952	The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952	The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1948	NASCAR is incorporated.
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.
1945	World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1945	World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
1937	The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1934	Augusto Sandino is executed.
1929	In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
1925	The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1921	Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921	Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
1919	German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1918	The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1916	World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1913	Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1896	An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
1885	The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1878	The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1874	The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1866	Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school.
1862	American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1848	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1842	John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1828	Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1808	Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1804	The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1797	A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
1613	Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1440	The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1245	Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.

Famous People Born on February 21

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Year	Name
1965	Mark Ferguson, Australian journalist
1969	Aunjanue Ellis, American actress and producer
1946	Bob Ryan, American journalist and author
1943	David Geffen, American businessman, co-founded DreamWorks and Geffen Records
1556	Sethus Calvisius, German astronomer, composer, and theorist (d. 1615)
1994	Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player
1993	Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer
1969	Cathy Richardson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1933	Bob Rafelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1894	Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic (d. 1955)

Famous People Deaths On February 21

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Date	Name
1730	Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1926	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1945	Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
1995	Robert Bolt, English dramatist (b. 1924)
1543	Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Somalian general (b. 1507)
1993	Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
1595	Robert Southwell, English priest and poet (b. 1561)
1968	Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1919	Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
1572	Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (d. 1501)