Page 10: Historical Events In February - 21

1990  32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win on February - 21.   

1991  On February - 21 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 this day in history 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  43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City on February - 21.   

1993  On this day in history sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters)   

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

1994  Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1995  RAF-pilot Jo Salter is first woman to fly in a tornado on this day in history.   

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  Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit on February - 21.   

1996  Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81 on February - 21.   

1997  "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres on this day in history.   

1997  STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands on February - 21.   

1997  On this day in history kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81   

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 this day in history.   

2012  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

2017  On February - 21 bodies of 87 African migrants wash ashore at Zawiya, Libya   

2017  On this day in history plane crashes into shopping centre in Essendon, Melbourne, Australia killing the five people on board   

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

2018  On February - 21 winter Olympics: Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall become the first Americans in history to win a cross country gold medal (team sprint)   

2019  SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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  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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1417  Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt) was born on this day in history.   

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

1556  On February - 21 birth of sethus Calvisius, composer   

1674  Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1684  Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator) was born on this day in history.   

1690  On this day in history birth of christoph Stoltzenberg, composer   

1705  On February - 21 birth of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)   

0556  Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies on this day in history.   

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

1471  On this day in history 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  On February - 21 death of robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged   

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

1648  Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies on this day in history.