SomeFacts | February 21

On this day - February 21

1245 — Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted ...

1440 — The Prussian Confederation is formed.

1613 — Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, ...

1797 — A force of 1,400 French soldiers invade Britain at Fishguard ...

1804 — The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at ...

1808 — Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross ...

1828 — Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical ...

1842 — John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing ...

1848 — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.

1861 — Mariehamn, the capital city of Åland, is founded.

1862 — American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort ...

1874 — The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.

1878 — The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, ...

1885 — The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.

1896 — An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fights an ...

1913 — Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan ...

1916 — World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.

1918 — The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati ...

1919 — German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death ...

1921 — Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.

1921 — Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia ...

1925 — The New Yorker publishes its first issue.

1929 — In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern ...

1937 — The League of Nations bans foreign national ...

1945 — World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the ...

1945 — World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze ...

1947 — In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first ...

1948 — NASCAR is incorporated.

1952 — The Bengali language movement protests occur at the University ...

1952 — The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes ...

1958 — The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct ...

1971 — The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

1972 — The Soviet uncrewed spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.

1972 — United States President Richard Nixon visits China to ...

1973 — Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down ...

1974 — The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez ...

1975 — Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John ...

1994 — Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of ...

1995 — Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming ...

2013 — At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following ...

2022 — In the prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian ...