About February 21
February 21, 2023 is the 52nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 354 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
- 362 –Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
- 1543 –Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
- 1613 –Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
- 1804 –The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
- 1874 –The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
- 1878 –The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1913 –Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
- 1918 –The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1925 –The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- 1937 –Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman’s Arrowbile.
- 1945 –World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.
- 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.
- 1952 –“ভাষা আন্দোলন”, “Bengali Language Movement” occurred in East Pakistan(now Bangladesh).
- 1965 –Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
- 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.
- 1973 –Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.
- 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.
- 1995 –Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
- 2004 –The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
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