What happened this day in history February 21

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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