|
Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 21
- 400th: 1624 - Dirck van Baburen Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about age 28.
- 150th: 1874 - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Robert G Mugabe; Premier/President of Zimbabwe.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Rue McClanahan in Healdton, Oklahoma, USA; actress (Maude, Golden Girls).
- 90th: 1934 - Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard.
- 80th: 1944 - The War As It Happens televised news show premieres on NBC (New York City only).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Herman de Coninck; Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Kitty Winn in Washington DC, USA; actress (Beacon Hill).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Ivo van Damme in Belgium; 800/1500-metre dash (Olympics-silver-1976).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Mark E Kelly in Orange, New Jersey, USA; Lieutenant US Navy/astronaut.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Scott J Kelly in Orange, New Jersey, USA; Lieutenant US Navy/astronaut.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Willie Pless; Canadian Football League linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos).
- 60th: 1964 - CBS airs the 200th episode of TV show Perry Mason.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Alexei Lojkin; NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-1998).
- 50th: 1974 - Tom Seaver becomes the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history when he signs a contract for US$172,000 per season with the New York Mets.
- 50th: 1974 - Israeli forces leave western Suez.
- 50th: 1974 - Silver hits record US$5.965 an ounce in London, England.
- 50th: 1974 - Yugoslavia adopts constitution.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905).
- 40th: 1984 - Timex withdraws from the home computer business. Timex introduced the British Sinclair Research ZX81 computer to North America as the Timex/Sinclair 1000 in 1982. Priced at $100, then dropped to $50, a lack of software and physical size and memory size limitations dampened initial public enthusiasm.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1918).
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Bart Howard at age 88 of complications from a stroke in Carmel, New York, USA; songwriter and pianist ("Fly Me to the Moon").
- 15th: 2009 - The Fray's album "The Fray" is No.1 on the Billboard album chart.
- 5th: 2019 - SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.
|
|
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/thisday/anniv/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
|