Page 10: Historical Events In February - 21

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  USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71   

1992  On this day in history kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating   

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

1993  On this day in history 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City   

1993  On February - 21 sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters)   

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  On this day in history rAF-pilot Jo Salter is first woman to fly in a tornado   

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  Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 on February - 21.   

1996  Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit on this day in history.   

1996  On this day in history horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81   

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

1997  On this day in history sTS 82 (Discovery 22) lands   

1997  On February - 21 kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81   

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  On this day in history 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 February - 21.   

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

2019  On February - 21 spaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.   

2021  On February - 21 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.   

2023  On February - 21 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  On February - 21 birth of louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)   

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

1556  On this day in history birth of sethus Calvisius, composer   

1674  Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer was born on February - 21.   

1675  On February - 21 birth of franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)   

1684  Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator) was born on February - 21.   

1690  On February - 21 birth of christoph Stoltzenberg, composer   

1705  Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781) was born on February - 21.   

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

1437  On February - 21 death of king James I of Scotland (b. 1394)   

1471  Death of John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop on February - 21.   

1513  On this day in history julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69   

1554  On this day in history hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies   

1595  Death of Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged on this day in history.   

1624  On this day in history dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28   

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