About February 21
February 21, 2024 is the 52nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 343 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
February 21: More About This Day
In addition, it’s the first day of the astronomical winter.
What Happened On February 21
- 1440 –The Prussian Confederation is formed.
- 1613 –Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
- 1848 –Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
- 1878 –The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1916 –World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
- 1918 –The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1919 –Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
- 1925 –The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to 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.
- 2004 –The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
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