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.
- 1245 –Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
- 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.
- 1842 –John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
- 1848 –Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- 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.
- 1916 –World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
- 1918 –The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1965 –Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
- 1970 –Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
- 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.
- 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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