21 Februar

The 21st o Februar is the 52nt day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 313 days ti come (314 in lowp years).

Events

Washington Monument

• 1437 - King James I o Scotland is murthert.
• 1613 - Michael I o Roushie becomes Tsar, stairtin the Romanov Dynasty's 300 year on the Roushie throne.
• 1848 - Karl Marx an Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
• 1858 - The Greek ceety o Corinth is destroyed bi a yirdquauk; it is rebiggit 6 kilometres away.
• 1875 - Jeanne Calment is born in the Sooth o Fraunce. She goes on tae live frae 122 year, 164 days, the langest-recordit human life-span.
• 1878 - The first telephone beuk is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1885 - The newly completit Washington Monument is dedicatit.
• 1916 - Warld War I: The Battle o Verdun in Fraunce begins.
• 1958 - The peace symbol is creatit bi Gerald Holtom.
• 1965 - American activist Malcolm X is assassinatit.
• 1972 - US Preses Richard Nixon visits the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae tae stairt closer relations.
• 1995 - Jeanne Calment becomes the first-recordit human tae reach the age o 120 year.
• 2002 - A Scots weemen's curlin team wins Olympic gowd for Great Breetain in Salt Lake City.
• 2003 - Croatie applies tae jyn the European Union.
• 2005 - Avalanches in Jammu an Kashmir kill ower 100 fowk.
• 2007 - Prime meenister o Italy Romano Prodi attempts tae resign, but it is rejectit bi Preses Giorgio Napolitano.
• 2014 - A Scots men's curlin team loses the Olympic feenal tae Canadae, winnin the siller medal for Great Breetain.

Births

Harald V o Norawa

• 1728 - Peter III o Roushie (d. 1762)
• 1791 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Preses o Mexico (d. 1876)
• 1836 - Alexander Dickson, Scots botanist an airtist (d. 1887)
• 1875 - Jeanne Calment, auldest-recordit person ever (d. 1997)
• 1895 - Henrik Dam, Dens chemist (d. 1976)
• 1907 - W. H. Auden, Inglis poet (d. 1973)
• 1921 - John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002)
• 1924 - Robert Mugabe, Preses o Zimbabwe
• 1929 - Chespirito, Mexican actor, director, producer an screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1933 - Nina Simone, American sangster (d. 2003)
• 1935 - Mark McManus, Scots actor (d. 1994)
• 1937 - Harald V, Keeng o Norawa
• 1946 - Alan Rickman, Inglis actor (d. 2016)
• 1947 - Renata Sorrah, Brazilian actress
• 1952 - Vitaly Churkin, Roushie diplomat (d. 2017)
• 1955 - Kelsey Grammer, American actor
• 1967 - Neil Oliver, Scots historian
• 1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
• 1980 - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Keeng o Bhutan
• 1980 - Tiziano Ferro, Italian sangster-sangwriter
• 1983 - Lusine Gevorkyan, Roushie-Armenie sangster
• 1984 - Andreas Seppi, Italian tennis player
• 1986 - Charlotte Church, Welsh sangster
• 1987 - Ellen Page, Canadian actress
• 1989 - Corbin Bleu, American actor, sangster, muisicker an dancer
• 1996 - Sophie Turner, Inglis actress

Daiths

• 1437 - James I o Scotland (b. 1394)
• 1513 - Pape Julius II (b. 1443)
• 1677 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1730 - Pape Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
• 1826 - John Kay, Scots caricaturist an engraver (b. 1742)
• 1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch pheesicist (b. 1853)
• 1941 - Frederick Banting, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1891)
• 1945 - Eric Liddell, Scots runner (b. 1902)
• 1965 - Malcolm X, American activist (b. 1925)
• 1984 - Mikhail Sholokhov, Roushie writer (b. 1905)
• 1991 - Margot Fonteyn, Inglis dancer (b. 1919)
• 2004 - John Charles, Welsh fitbawer (b. 1931)
• 2013 - Bruce Millan, Scots politeecian (b. 1927)
• 2017 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist (b. 1921)
• 2018 - Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918)

Halidays

• Internaitional Mither Tongue Day
• Biikebrennen (islands o Northren Germany an Soothren Denmark)