What are the important events that happened on February 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 21: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 21 is the 52nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 8, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 483,360 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontadigon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 361 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,445 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 21: This Day In History
In addition, it’s the first day of the astronomical winter.
February 21 Historical Events
- 362 –Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
- 1804 –The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
- 1874 –The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
- 1916 –World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
- 1918 –The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1921 –Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country’s first constitution.
- 1937 –The League of Nations bans foreign national “volunteers” in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1947 –In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera”, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
- 1971 –The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
Who were born on February 21?
- 1728 –Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
- 1910 –Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982)
- 1937 –Gary Lockwood, American actor
- 1940 –Wong Jim, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
- 1947 –Johnny Echols, American musician
- 1958 –Jake Burns, Irish singer
- 1961 –Christopher Atkins, American actor
- 1981 –Jun Kaname, Japanese actor
- 1986 –Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
- 1987 –Ellen Page, Canadian actress
Who died on February 21?
- 1554 –Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498)
- 1788 –Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
- 1938 –George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
- 1949 –Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
- 1968 –Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
- 1980 –Alfred Andersch, German writer (b. 1914)
- 1981 –Erika Köth, German coloratura soprano (b. 1927)
- 1989 –Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
- 1991 –Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
- 2000 –Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
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