February 21
Saturday 21, 2004:
The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
Friday 21, 2003:
Over 100 concert goers die in a fire during a performance of the rock band Great White.
Monday 21, 2000:
David Letterman returns to The Late Show over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.
Tuesday 21, 1995:
Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
Sunday 21, 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.
Friday 21, 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.
Thursday 21, 1974:
The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal in carrying out a truce with Egypt.
Wednesday 21, 1973:
Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
Monday 21, 1972:
The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
Sunday 21, 1971:
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
Saturday 21, 1970:
Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
Sunday 21, 1965:
Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
Sunday 21, 1960:
Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.
Saturday 21, 1953:
Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
Thursday 21, 1952:
Churchill government in the UK abolishes Identity Cards to "set the people free".
Saturday 21, 1948:
NASCAR is incorporated.
Friday 21, 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.
Sunday 21, 1937:
Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile; League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
Saturday 21, 1925:
The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
Monday 21, 1916:
World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.
Tuesday 21, 1893:
Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device"
Saturday 21, 1885:
The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
Thursday 21, 1878:
The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sunday 21, 1875:
Jeanne Calment was born. She then went on to live for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
Saturday 21, 1874:
The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
Monday 21, 1848:
Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto.
Monday 21, 1842:
John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine.
Tuesday 21, 1804:
The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.
Thursday 21, 1743:
The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, "Samson".
Thursday 21, 1613:
Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia .
Sunday 21, 1543:
A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeated a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
Friday 21, 1440:
The Prussian Confederation is formed.
Monday 21, 1431:
The trial of Joan of Arc begins.
Wednesday 21, 362:
Athanasius returns to Alexandria
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