Page 10: Historical Events In February - 21

1990  32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances   

1991  USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable on February - 21.   

1991  On February - 21 margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71   

1992  Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating on February - 21.   

1992  On February - 21 eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97   

1993  On February - 21 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City   

1993  Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters) on this day in history.   

1993  On February - 21 ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76   

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 February - 21 sTS 82 (Discovery 22) lands   

1997  Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

2012  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 on February - 21.   

2012  Greek government debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, .130-billion Greek bailout on this day in history.   

2013  On February - 21 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria   

2014  11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia on February - 21.   

2017  On this day in history bodies of 87 African migrants wash ashore at Zawiya, Libya   

2017  Plane crashes into shopping centre in Essendon, Melbourne, Australia killing the five people on board on February - 21.   

2018  Indian film star Kamal Haasan launches a new political party - Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu state on February - 21.   

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 this day in history spaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.   

2021  Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia wins a record extending 9th Australian title; dominates Russian Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 on February - 21.   

2021  On February - 21 india's BJP party issues resolution country had "defeated COVID under the able, sensitive, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ”, massive second wave hits two months later   

2023  On this day in history vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US.   

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1417  Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt) was born on February - 21.   

1484  Joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution) was born on this day in history.   

1556  Sethus Calvisius, composer was born on February - 21.   

1674  On February - 21 birth of johann Augustin Kobelius, composer   

1675  Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750) was born on this day in history.   

1684  On this day in history birth of justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)   

1690  Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer was born on February - 21.   

1705  On this day in history birth of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)   

0556  Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies on February - 21.   

1437  Death of King James I of Scotland (b. 1394) on February - 21.   

1471  On February - 21 death of john of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop   

1513  On February - 21 julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69   

1554  Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies on February - 21.   

1595  Death of Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged on February - 21.   

1624  On February - 21 dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28   

1648  On this day in history christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies