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February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 313 days remain until the end of the year (314 in leap years). Events. Pre-1600. 452 or 453 ...
This is a list of selected February 21 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, ...
Procession march held on 21 February 1952 in Dhaka. 21 February was declared to be International Mother Language Day by UNESCO on 17 November 1999. It has been observed throughout the world since 21 February 2000. The declaration came up in tribute to the Language Movement done by the Bangladeshis (then the East Pakistanis).
February 21: Language Movement Day in Bangladesh ; Family Day in Canada (2022); Washington's Birthday / Presidents' Day in the United States (2022) Lucy Hobbs Taylor 1437 – King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl .
Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City, on February 21, 1965, at the age of 39 while preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights.
February 21: Language Movement Day in Bangladesh Peace sign designed by Gerald Holtom 1746 – Jacobite rising of 1745 : The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that he is lifting domestic coronavirus restrictions in England, including the legal requirement for people with COVID-19 to self-isolate, from February 24. As part of the plan, free self-testing will end by April 1.
[21] Erwin Rommel arrived in Libya on a Junkers Ju 52. [22] Germans closed off the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam with barbed wire. [2] Former King of Spain Alfonso XIII, living in exile in Rome, renounced the throne in favour of his third son Juan. [2] Santiago, Chile celebrated the 400th anniversary of its founding. [23] German submarine U-651 ...