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Events
362 – Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1437 – James I of Scotland is assassinated.
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 unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1792 – The Presidential Succession Act is passed by Congress.
1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive hauled a train on its first trip from the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. The locomotive was designed by British inventor Richard Trevithick.
1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1852 – George Bancroft, known as “The Father of U.S. History,” becomes the first president of the American Geographical Society.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory between the Confederate forces of General Henry Sibley and the Union troops of Colonel Edward Canby.
1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
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1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
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.
1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
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 USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS 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 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1958 – The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 – U.S. 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.
1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
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.
1986 – Shigeru Miyamoto starts the Legend of Zelda franchise Legend of Zelda.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
2013 – At least 17 people are dead and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Pepin of Landen
Peter Damian
Randoald of Grandval
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Saint Eustathius of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (337)
Hieromartyr Severian, Bishop of Scythopolis in Palestine (452)
Venerable Andreas and Anatolios, monastics of the Church of Jerusalem,
disciples of Venerable Euthymius the Great (5th c.)
Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (c. 556)
Saint John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople (577)
Saint Zachariah, Patriarch of Jerusalem (632)
Venerable Timothy of Symbola on Mt. Olympus in Bithynia (795)
Saint George of Amastris, Bishop of Amastris on the Black Sea (c. 805)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Felix of Metz, third Bishop of Metz in France for over forty years (2nd c.))
Saint Severus and Sixty-Two Companions, martyrs in Syrmium in Pannonia (3rd-4th c.)
Saint Alexander of Adrumetum, martyred with others in North Africa (c. 434)
Martyrs Verulus, Secundinus, Siricius, Felix, Servulus, Saturninus, Fortunatus,
and Companions, martyrs in North Africa, probably under the Vandals (c. 434)
Saint Paterius, a monk, disciple and friend of St Gregory the Great, he became Bishop
of Brescia and was a prolific writer (606))
Saint Pepin of Landen, Duke of Brabant, he was the husband of St Ida and the father
of St Gertrude of Nivelles and St Begga (c. 646)
Saint Ercongotha, daughter of King Erconbert of Kent and St Saxburgh, became a nun at
Faremoutiers-en-Brie under her aunt, St Ethelburgh, but reposed very young (660)
Saint Gundebert (Gumbert, Gondelbert), Bishop of Sens in France, later the founder
of the monastery of Senones around 660 (c. 676)
Saint Germanus of Granfelden, Abbot of Granfield in the Val Moutier in Switzerland,
martyred with another monk, Randoald, while interceding for the poor (677)
Saint Avitus II of Clermont, Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne, one of the great
bishops of the age (689)
Saint Valerius, a monk and Abbot of San Pedro de Montes, he left several ascetic
writings (695
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Macarius, Hieroschemamonk of Glinsk Hermitage (1864)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Alexander Vislyansky, Daniel Alferov, and Gregory Klebanov,
Priests (1930)
New Hieromartyrs Constantine Pyatikrestovsky, Priest, and Paul Shirokogorov,
Deacon (1938)
Virgin-Martyr Olga Koshelev (1939)
Other commemorations
"Kozelshchina" (Kolzelshchanskaya) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1881)
Repose of Blessed Simon (Todorsky), bishop of Pskov (1754)
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