Historical Events In February - 21
Friday, 29 March 2024
1990 On this day in history 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win
1991 On February - 21 neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances
1991 On this day in history uSSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
1991 On this day in history margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71
1992 On February - 21 kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating
1992 Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97 on February - 21.
1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City on February - 21.
1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters) on this day in history.
1993 Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76 on this day in history.
1994 Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68 on February - 21.
1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is first woman to fly in a tornado on February - 21.
1995 Steve Fossett, a Chicago stockbroker, becomes the first person to make a solo balloon flight across the Pacific, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada on February - 21.
1995 On February - 21 robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
1996 On this day in history soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
1996 On February - 21 horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81
1997 On February - 21 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres
1997 On this day in history sTS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
1997 On this day in history kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81
2012 On this day in history yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi
2012 On February - 21 greek government debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, .130-billion Greek bailout.
2013 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria on February - 21.
2014 On February - 21 11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia
2017 Bodies of 87 African migrants wash ashore at Zawiya, Libya on this day in history.
2017 On February - 21 plane crashes into shopping centre in Essendon, Melbourne, Australia killing the five people on board
2018 On this day in history indian film star Kamal Haasan launches a new political party - Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu state
2018 Winter Olympics: Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall become the first Americans in history to win a cross country gold medal (team sprint) on February - 21.
2019 On February - 21 spaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.
2021 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Äoković of Serbia wins a record extending 9th Australian title; dominates Russian Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 on February - 21.
2021 India's BJP party issues resolution country had "defeated COVID under the able, sensitive, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi â€, massive second wave hits two months later on February - 21.
2023 Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US on this day in history.
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