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

  • 362 –
    Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
  • 1543 –
    Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
  • 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.
  • 1874 –
    The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
  • 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.
  • 1921 –
    Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country’s first constitution.
  • 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.
  • 1952 –
    The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to “set the people free”.
  • 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.
  • 2004 –
    The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.

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