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Events on the 21st of February in history

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21 Feb 0362 Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
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21 Feb 1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury
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21 Feb 1245 Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
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21 Feb 1431 England begins trial against Joan of Arc
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21 Feb 1437 James I of Scotland is assassinated.
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21 Feb 1440 The Prussian Confederation is formed.
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21 Feb 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
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21 Feb 1564 Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comt
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21 Feb 1574 Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders
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21 Feb 1583 Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar
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21 Feb 1598 Boris Godunov crowned tsar
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21 Feb 1613 Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
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21 Feb 1613 Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
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21 Feb 1673 Michiel A de Ruyter appointed Lieutenant-Admiral-General of Dutch fleet
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21 Feb 1675 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
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21 Feb 1764 John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
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21 Feb 1777 English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
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21 Feb 1782 US congress resolves the establishment of a US mint
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21 Feb 1792 Congress passes Presidential Succession Act
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21 Feb 1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
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21 Feb 1797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British
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21 Feb 1804 The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
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21 Feb 1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
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21 Feb 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.
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21 Feb 1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix, " published
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21 Feb 1828 Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
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21 Feb 1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia
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21 Feb 1842 John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
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21 Feb 1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington DC
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21 Feb 1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Massachusetts
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21 Feb 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
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21 Feb 1853 US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
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21 Feb 1857 US issues flying eagle cents
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21 Feb 1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
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21 Feb 1858 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Massachusetts)
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21 Feb 1861 Navaho Indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
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21 Feb 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
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21 Feb 1862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico
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21 Feb 1862 Confederate Constitution & Presidency are declared permanent
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21 Feb 1864 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore MD
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21 Feb 1864 Battle at Okolonam MS
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21 Feb 1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
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21 Feb 1874 The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
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21 Feb 1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
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21 Feb 1874 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
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21 Feb 1878 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)
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21 Feb 1878 The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
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21 Feb 1878 1st telephone directory (with 50 names) issued (New Haven CT)
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21 Feb 1882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
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21 Feb 1883 2nd French government of Ferry begins
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21 Feb 1885 The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
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21 Feb 1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington DC)
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21 Feb 1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
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21 Feb 1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
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21 Feb 1895 North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
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21 Feb 1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
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21 Feb 1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC
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21 Feb 1904 National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming, Michigan
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21 Feb 1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)
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21 Feb 1910 John Galsworthy's "Justice" premieres in London
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21 Feb 1911 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse
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21 Feb 1913 Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
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21 Feb 1914 White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
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21 Feb 1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
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21 Feb 1916 World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
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21 Feb 1916 Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins (1 million casualties)
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21 Feb 1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
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21 Feb 1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
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21 Feb 1918 The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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21 Feb 1918 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
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21 Feb 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.
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21 Feb 1919 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss incorporation of Austria
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21 Feb 1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
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21 Feb 1920 Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, "Le Train Bleu" premieres in Paris
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21 Feb 1921 Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
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21 Feb 1921 Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
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21 Feb 1922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
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21 Feb 1922 Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
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21 Feb 1922 Great Britain grants Egypt independence
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21 Feb 1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
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21 Feb 1925 The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
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21 Feb 1925 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
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21 Feb 1927 Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch" premieres
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21 Feb 1930 Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures" premieres in New York NY
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21 Feb 1931 Alka Seltzer introduced
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21 Feb 1931 Chicago White Sox & New York Giants play 1st exhibition night game
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21 Feb 1932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
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21 Feb 1932 Andr
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21 Feb 1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard
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21 Feb 1937 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
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21 Feb 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot forms
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21 Feb 1941 US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General
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21 Feb 1942 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
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21 Feb 1942 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
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21 Feb 1943 Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews
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21 Feb 1943 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
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21 Feb 1944 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
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21 Feb 1945 World War II: Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
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21 Feb 1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
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21 Feb 1945 British Army captures Goch
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21 Feb 1945 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
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21 Feb 1946 Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
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21 Feb 1947 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
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21 Feb 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.
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21 Feb 1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
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21 Feb 1947 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champion
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21 Feb 1948 NASCAR is incorporated.
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21 Feb 1950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC / PBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Feb 1951 SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
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21 Feb 1951 South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
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21 Feb 1952 The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
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21 Feb 1952 The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
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21 Feb 1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
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21 Feb 1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
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21 Feb 1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
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21 Feb 1953 "Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances
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21 Feb 1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
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21 Feb 1953 F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
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21 Feb 1957 Dodgers (Ft Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
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21 Feb 1957 Dodgers (Ft Worth) & Cubs (Los Angeles) "trade" minor league franchises
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21 Feb 1958 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
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21 Feb 1958 The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
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21 Feb 1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)
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21 Feb 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
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21 Feb 1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km
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21 Feb 1961 Friedrich D
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21 Feb 1961 Gabon adopts constitution
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21 Feb 1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands
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21 Feb 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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21 Feb 1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
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21 Feb 1965 Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
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21 Feb 1966 Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution
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21 Feb 1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
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21 Feb 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
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21 Feb 1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
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21 Feb 1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators
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21 Feb 1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
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21 Feb 1970 Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
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21 Feb 1971 The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
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21 Feb 1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117
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21 Feb 1971 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
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21 Feb 1972 The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
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21 Feb 1972 United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
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21 Feb 1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US President to visit China
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21 Feb 1972 Michael Weller's "Moonchildren" premieres in New York NY
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21 Feb 1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
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21 Feb 1973 Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.
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21 Feb 1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
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21 Feb 1974 The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
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21 Feb 1974 Silver hits record $5.96
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21 Feb 1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez
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21 Feb 1974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
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21 Feb 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.
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21 Feb 1975 John Lennon's "Rock 'n' Roll" album is released
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21 Feb 1975 John Mitchell, H R Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2
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21 Feb 1976 "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 performances
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21 Feb 1976 Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
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21 Feb 1977 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY
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21 Feb 1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550 / 580 km)
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21 Feb 1979 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters; the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period
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21 Feb 1980 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olympics gold (giant slalom)
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21 Feb 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1500 meter in 1 55.44
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21 Feb 1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
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21 Feb 1981 Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
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21 Feb 1981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
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21 Feb 1981 NASA launches Comstar D-4
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21 Feb 1982 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 performances
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21 Feb 1982 "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances
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21 Feb 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
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21 Feb 1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds
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21 Feb 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
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21 Feb 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
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21 Feb 1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skating race
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21 Feb 1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
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21 Feb 1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
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21 Feb 1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
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21 Feb 1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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21 Feb 1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut
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21 Feb 1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
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21 Feb 1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
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21 Feb 1988 During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52) admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time. (Defrocked in April by the Assemblies of God, he was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months)
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21 Feb 1988 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13:48.20)
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21 Feb 1989 US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup]
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21 Feb 1989 US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)
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21 Feb 1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
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21 Feb 1990 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win
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21 Feb 1991 "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 performances
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21 Feb 1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances
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21 Feb 1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
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21 Feb 1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating
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21 Feb 1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
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21 Feb 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters)
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21 Feb 1995 Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
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21 Feb 1995 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
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21 Feb 1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
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21 Feb 1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
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21 Feb 1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition, " premieres
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21 Feb 1997 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
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21 Feb 1998 Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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21 Feb 2013 At least 17 people are dead and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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