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February 21st
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February 21st is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.  There are 313 days remaining until the end of the
calendar year (314 in leap years).  February 21st is International Mother Language Day.

Births
1934
- Rue McClanahan, actress (Golden Girls)
1940 - John Lewis, Congressman, civil rights activist
1947 - Olympia Snowe, U.S. Senator (Maine)
1953 - William Petersen, actor, producer (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
1955 - Kelsey Grammer, actor, producer (Frasier)
1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
1987 - Ellen Page, actress (Juno)
1989 - Corbin Bleu, actor, model, singer (High School Musical)

Deaths
1965
- Malcolm X, human rights activist
1977 - Henry Jordan, Hall of Fame defensive tackle
1991 - John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator (Kentucky)

Events
1842
- John Greenough is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1848 - Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams suffers a stroke on the floor of the United States House of
Representatives and would die on
February 23rd.
1848 - The Communist Manifesto is published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
1878 - The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 - The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1925 - The first issue of the magazine The New Yorker is issued.
1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
1961 - The Beatles make their first lunchtime appearance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.
1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
1972 - United States President Richard Nixon visits China, becoming the first U.S. President to do so.
2000 - David Letterman returns to the Late Show five weeks after having emergency surgery for a quintuple bypass.
Calendar
January
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
February
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29
March
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
May
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
June
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
July
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
August
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
September
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
October
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
November
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
December
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
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