21 February
Notable Births
Leeseo
b. 2007
South Korean singer (born 2007)
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
b. 1999
Thai actor (born 1999)
Noah Rubin (tennis)
b. 1996
American tennis player (born 1996)
Sophie Turner
b. 1996
English actress (born 1996)
Hayley Orrantia
b. 1994
American actress and musician (born 1994)
Wendy (singer)
b. 1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Steve Leo Beleck
b. 1993
Cameroonian footballer
Davy Klaassen
b. 1993
Dutch footballer (born 1993)
Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)
b. 1992
English footballer
Joe Alwyn
b. 1991
English actor (born 1991)
Riyad Mahrez
b. 1991
Algerian footballer (born 1991)
Ji So-yun
b. 1991
South Korean footballer (born 1991)
Solar (singer)
b. 1991
South Korean singer (born 1991)
Devon Travis
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Mattias Tedenby
b. 1990
Swedish ice hockey player
Corbin Bleu
b. 1989
American actor (born 1989)
Ian Cole
b. 1989
American ice hockey player (born 1989)
Federico Fernández (footballer)
b. 1989
Argentine footballer (born 1989)
Jake Muzzin
b. 1989
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)
Donté Greene
b. 1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Rondale Moore
d. 2026
American football player (2000–2026)
Clint Hill (Secret Service)
d. 2025
U.S. Secret Service agent (1932–2025)
Lynne Marie Stewart
d. 2025
American actress (1946–2025)
John Bahnsen
d. 2024
United States Army general (1934–2024)
Mireya Arboleda
d. 2021
Colombian classical pianist (1928–2021)
Stanley Donen
d. 2019
American film director and choreographer (1924–2019)
Peter Tork
d. 2019
American musician and actor (1942–2019)
Billy Graham
d. 2018
American evangelist (1918–2018)
Jeanne Martin Cissé
d. 2017
Politician from Guinea (1926–2017)
Eric Brown (pilot)
d. 2016
Royal Navy test pilot, author (1920–2016)
Aleksei Gubarev
d. 2015
Soviet general, pilot and cosmonaut (1931–2015)
Sadeq Tabatabaei
d. 2015
Iranian diplomat (1943-2015)
Clark Terry
d. 2015
American swing and bebop trumpeter (1920–2015)
Héctor Maestri
d. 2014
Cuban baseball player (1935-2014)
Matthew Robinson (snowboarder)
d. 2014
Australian snowboarder (1985–2014)
Hasse Jeppson
d. 2013
Swedish footballer (1925–2013)
H. M. Darmstandler
d. 2012
United States Air Force general
Dwayne McDuffie
d. 2011
American comic book and television writer (1962–2011)
Malcolm X
d. 1965
American civil rights activist (1925–1965)
James I of Scotland
d. 1437
15th-century King of Scots
On This Day in History
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2022
In the prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.
Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2013
At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
2013 Hyderabad blasts
1995
Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
Steve Fossett
1994
Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
Aldrich Ames
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.
Watergate scandal
1974
The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
Suez Canal
1973
Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
Sinai Peninsula
1972
United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
Richard Nixon
1972
The Soviet uncrewed spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
Soviet Union
1971
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
Convention on Psychotropic Substances
1958
The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
Peace symbols
1952
The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
Winston Churchill
1952
The Bengali language movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
Bengali language movement
1948
NASCAR is incorporated.
NASCAR
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.
Edwin H. Land
1945
World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
World War II
1945
World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
Brazilian Expeditionary Force
1937
The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
League of Nations
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.
Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong
1925
The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
The New Yorker