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Saturday 21 February 2015

Today In History [21st February, 2105]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today In History [20th February, 2015]

February 21
1595           The Jesuit poet Robert Southwell is hanged for "treason" being a Catholic.
1631           Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, is elected Russian Tsar.
1744           The British blockade of Toulon is broken by 27 French and Spanish warships attacking 29 British ships.
1775           As troubles with Great Britain increase, colonists in Massachusetts vote to buy military equipment for 15,000 men.
1797           Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British.
1828           The first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is printed, both in English and in the newly invented Cherokee alphabet.
1849           In the Second Sikh War, Sir Hugh Gough's well placed guns win a victory over a Sikh force twice the size of his at Gujerat on the Chenab River, assuring British control of the Punjab for years to come.
1862           The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico.
1878           The world's first telephone book is issued by the New Haven Connecticut Telephone Company containing the names of its 50 subscribers.
1885           The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1905           The Mukden campaign of the Russo-Japanese War, begins.
1916           The battle of Verdun begins with an unprecedented German artillery barrage of the French lines.
1940           The Germans begin construction of a concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1944           Hideki Tojo becomes chief of staff of the Japanese army.
1949           Nicaragua and Costa Rica sign a friendship treaty ending hostilities over their borders.
1951           The U. S. Eighth Army launches Operation Killer, a counterattack to push Chinese forces north of the Han River in Korea.
1956           A grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicts 115 in a Negro bus boycott.
1960           Havana places all Cuban industry under direct control of the government.
1965           El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) is assassinated in front of 400 people.
1972           Richard Nixon arrives in Beijing, China, becoming the first U.S. president to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S.
1974           A report claims that the use of defoliants by the U.S. has scarred Vietnam for a century.

Born on February 21
1794           Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican Revolutionary.
1801           John Henry Newman, English theologian and writer.
1821           Charles Scribner, founded the publishing firm which became Charles Scribner's Sons and also founded Scribner's magazine.
1893           Andés Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist.
1907           W.H. Auden, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (The Age of Anxiety).
1920           Robert S. Johnson, American World War II fighter ace who shot down 27 German planes.
1927           Erma Bombeck, author and humorist (The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank).

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