Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 21
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Peace sign designed by Gerald Holtom
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Friedrich Engels
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Karl Marx
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Kurt Eisner
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Polaroid Land Camera Model 95
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Carolina Parakeet
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Richard Trevithick
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Lucy Hobbs Taylor
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Mother Language Day | refimprove section |
| 1245 – Pope Innocent IV accepted the resignation of Thomas, the first known bishop of Finland, after he confessed to torture and forgery. | multiple issues |
| 1543 – Abyssinian–Adal war: Led by Ethiopian emperor Gelawdewos, a combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeated a Muslim army led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. | date not cited |
| 1613 – Michael was elected unanimously by the Zemsky Sobor to become Tsar, beginning the Romanov dynasty in Imperial Russia. | needs more footnotes |
| 1804 – Built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick, the first self-propelled steam locomotive ran in Wales. | Trevithick: needs more footnotes; Locomotive: refimprove section |
| 1848 – Communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto, which became one of the world's most influential political tracts. | refimprove |
| 1878 – The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut. | Too much uncited |
| 1918 – The Carolina parakeet, the only parrot species native to the eastern United States, became extinct when the last individual died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. | refimprove |
| 1921 – Reza Khan seized Tehran to make himself the most powerful person in Iran, which eventually led to the establishment of the Pahlavi dynasty. | lots of CN tags (9) |
| 1921 – The Constituent Assembly of Georgia adopted the nation's first constitution, shortly before being overthrown by the Soviet Union. | lots of CN tags (relative to length) (2) |
| 1947 – Edwin H. Land demonstrated the use of the first instant camera to the Optical Society of America. | both: refimprove |
| 1948 – Bill France Sr. and several other race car drivers founded NASCAR, the governing body of stock car racing in the United States. | multiple issues |
| 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances, a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs, was signed at a conference of plenipotentiaries in Vienna. | refimprove section |
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- 1437 – King [[James I of Scotland|Template:Nowrap of Scotland]] was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
- 1828 – The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
- 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.
- 1919 – Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.
- 1929 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
- 1958 – British artist Gerald Holtom unveiled a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that later became internationally recognised as the peace sign.
- Born/died: | Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi |d|1543| Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick |d|1590| Raimondo Montecuccoli |b|1609| Baruch Spinoza |d|1677| Elizabeth Willing Powel |b|1743| Goscombe John |b|1860| Mirra Alfassa |b|1878| Mary Edwards Walker |d|1919| Thelma Estrin |b|1924| Nina Simone |b|1933| Howard Florey |d|1968| Helen Hooven Santmyer |d|1986| Marcus & Martinus |b|2002| Jeanne Martin Cissé |d|2017| Stanley Donen |d|2019
Notes
- Language Movement Day and Bengali language movement should not appear in the same year.
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- 1746 – Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.
- 1952 – A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.
- 1965 – American Black nationalist Malcolm X (pictured) was assassinated while giving a speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.
- 1973 – After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.