What are the important events that happened on February 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 21: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 21 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 8, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,708,473,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontadigon’ day.
Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,079 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 21: This Day In History
In addition, it’s the first day of the astronomical winter.
February 21 Historical Events
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.
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.
1913 –
Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1925 –
The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
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.
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.
Who were born on February 21?
1556 –
Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615)
1934 –
Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010)
1937 –
King Harald V of Norway
1940 –
Peter Gethin, British racing driver
1969 –
James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician
1973 –
Justin Sane, American punk musician
1980 –
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 5th king of Bhutan
1984 –
Andrew Ellis, New Zealand All Black rugby union player
1986 –
Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1989 –
Jem Karacan, English-born Turkish footballer
Who died on February 21?
1730 –
Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1821 –
Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1900 –
Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (b. 1853)
1901 –
George Francis Fitzgerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1934 –
Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary (b. 1895)
1949 –
Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
1985 –
Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
1989 –
Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
1991 –
Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
2005 –
Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
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