Page 10: Historical Events In February - 21

1995  Steve Fossett, a Chicago stockbroker, is recorded as becoming the inaugural person to make a solo balloon flight across the Pacific, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada   

1995  Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70.   

1996  Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit   

1996  Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81.   

1997  "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres.   

1997  STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands   

1997  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   

2012  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.   

2014  11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia.   

2017  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.   

2018  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 inaugural Americans in history to win a cross country gold medal (team sprint).   

2019  SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's inaugural privately financed mission to the Moon   

2021  In this year, Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia claims a record extending 9th Australian title; dominates Russian Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2   

2021  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.   

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1417  Louis ix: Duke of bayern (university of ingolstadt)   

1484  Joachim i nestor: Elector (brandenburg, constitution)   

1556  Sethus calvisius: Composer   

1674  Johann augustin kobelius: Composer   

1675  Franz xaver josef von unertl: Bavarian politician   

1684  Justus van effen: Writer/founder (holland spectator)   

1690  Christoph stoltzenberg: Composer   

1705  Edward hawke: 1st baron hawke, british naval officer   

0556  Maximianus van ravenna: Bishop (basilica s stefano),   

1437  King james i of scotland: King james i of scotland (b. 1394)   

1471  John of rokycan: Czech catholic archbishop   

1513  Julius ii: [giuliano dellea rovere], pope (1503-13),   

1554  Hieronymus bock: German doctor (founder of modern botany),   

1595  Robert southwell: English jesuit/poet, hanged   

1624  Dirck van baburen: Dutch painter (sepulture),   

1648  Christian iv: King of denmark/norway,