21 February In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, February 21 is the day number 52 in a given year. February 21 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1245	Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, was grantedresignation by Pope Innocent IV after having confessed to torture andforgery.
1437	King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coupby his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
1543	Led by the Ethiopian Emperor Galawdewos, the combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeated a Muslim army led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi.
1613	The rule of the Romanov dynasty was established in Russia.
1791	The United States opened diplomatic relations with Portugal.
1804	Built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick, the first self-propelled steam locomotive first ran in Wales.
1808	Finnish War: Russian soldiers crossed the border into Finland without declaring war.
1824	The Chmash rebellion of 1824 began against the Spanish presence in California.
1828	The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the firstnewspaper in a Native American language, was published.
1842	John Greenoff got patent rights for sewing machine in US.
1848	Communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publishedThe Communist Manifesto, which became one of the world's mostinfluential political tracts.
1858	Edwin T. Holmes built the first electric thief alarm (Boston, Mass.).
1862	The federal constitution and the presidency were declared permanent.
1862	Munshi Mehboob Alam, an eminent poet and journalist of Urdu language, was born.
1878	First telephone directory was released in Connecticut, USA.
1896	The great poet and writer Suryakant Tripathi Nirala was born.
1916	During World War I, a terrible war broke out between Germany and France. This battle is famous as the War of War.
1918	The Carolina Parakeet, the only parrot speciesnative to the eastern United States, became extinct when the lastindividual died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919	Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.
1921	Reza Khan seized Tehran to make himself the most powerfulperson in Iran, which eventually led to the establishment of the Pahlavidynasty.
1925	621 died at a dynamite depot in Brazil.
1932	André Tardié became the Prime Minister of France for the third time.
1948	Bill France, Sr. and several other race car drivers founded NASCAR, the governing body of stock car racing in the United States.
1952	Protesters in Dhaka, East Pakistan, walked into militarycrossfire demanding the establishment of the Bengali language as anofficial language.
1952	A demonstration was held to give Bengali language official language status at Dhaka University in East Pakistan (present-day Dhaka).
1958	British artist Gerald Holtom designed a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that became more commonly known as the peace symbol.
1965	Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while giving aspeech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.
1965	Malcolm X, a famous American militant, was killed by a suspected faction of this country.
1971	The Convention on Psychotropic Substances, a United Nationstreaty designed to control psychoactive drugs, was signed at aconference of plenipotentiaries in Vienna.
1973	After accidentally having strayed into Israeli airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Israeli fighter aircraft.
1973	In the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shot down the Libyan Arab Airlines plane-114, killing 108 people on board.
1986	The Government of South Africa opened Johannesburg and Durban to blacks.
1991	US called the plan unacceptable when U.S.S.R Announces that Iraq agrees to proposal to end Persian Gulf War.
1993	Sergi Bubka sets the world record in indoor pole vault (6.15m).
1995	Sarkadji Prison Rebellion in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners were killed in a year and a half.
1996	Soyuz TM-23 got launched into its orbit.
1998	Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open was held.
1999	The Lahore Manifesto was signed by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif.
2001	U2, Steely Dan, Macy Gray and Sting win major awards at 43rd Grammy Awards.
2010	The foreign direct investment into China has risen for the sixth consecutive month, up $8.3 billion year-on-year.
2011	An experimental life-blogging camera was removed from the head of a professor from New York University after his immune system rejected the implant.
2012	Among the winners in at the 2012 BRIT awards for British popular music there were One Direction, Adele, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran.
2013	The country will hold parliamentary elections in April 2013, The Egypt’s Government announced.
2014	President Obama meets with Dalai Lama for the third time even though it was protested from china that this meeting could threaten diplomatic relations.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1948	The draft of the constitution of independent India was presented to the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly.
1991	Indian actress and singer Nutan passed away.
2013	The serial blasts in Hyderabad, India, killed 17 people and injured 119.

Day/Observance	Level
International Mother Language Day	International Day
World Scout Day	International Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1878	Mirra Alfassa / Spiritual Leader / India
1894	Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar / Academic / India
1894	Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar / Scientist / India
1896	Nirala / Poet / India
1896	Suryakanti Tripathi Nirala / Writer / India
1952	T. R. Zeliang / Politician / India

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