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  On February - 21 uSSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable  

1991  Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 on February - 21.  

1992  Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating on this day in history.  

1992  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

1993  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.  

1995  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1997  On February - 21 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres  

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

1997  Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81 on February - 21.  

2012  On February - 21 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 this day in history greek government debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, .130-billion Greek bailout.  

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  Bodies of 87 African migrants wash ashore at Zawiya, Libya on February - 21.  

2017  On February - 21 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  Winter Olympics: Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall become the first Americans in history to win a cross country gold medal (team sprint) on this day in history.  

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

2021  On this day in history 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  

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 on this day in history.  

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1417  On February - 21 birth of louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)  

1484  On this day in history birth of joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)  

1556  Sethus Calvisius, composer was born on this day in history.  

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  Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781) was born on February - 21.  

0556  On this day in history maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies  

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  Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 on February - 21.  

1554  Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies on this day in history.  

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