About February 21
February 21, 2025 is the 52nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 361 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.
- 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.
- 1804 –The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
- 1842 –John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
- 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.
- 1913 –Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
- 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.
- 1921 –Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country’s first constitution.
- 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.
- 1948 –NASCAR is incorporated.
- 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.
- 1965 –Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
- 1971 –The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
- 1973 –Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.
- 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.
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