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
- 1245 –Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
- 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.
- 1874 –The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
- 1885 –The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1952 –“ভাষা আন্দোলন”, “Bengali Language Movement” occurred in East Pakistan(now Bangladesh).
- 1952 –The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to “set the people free”.
- 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.
- 1974 –The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
- 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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