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.
- 1440 –The Prussian Confederation is formed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1885 –The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
- 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 –The League of Nations bans foreign national “volunteers” in the Spanish Civil War.
- 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.
- 1948 –NASCAR is incorporated.
- 1952 –“ভাষা আন্দোলন”, “Bengali Language Movement” occurred in East Pakistan(now Bangladesh).
- 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.
- 1995 –Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
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