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Movement Day (Bangladesh)
The first day of Musikahan Festival,
celebrated until February 27.
(Tagum City)
February
21 :
International Human Rights
Commission Constitution Day, recognized
by the IHRC
Events
February 21
1440
– The Prussian Confederation is
formed.
1842 – John Greenough is granted
the first U.S. patent for the
sewing machine.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1878 – The first telephone book
is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 – The British government,
under Winston Churchill, abolishes
identity cards in the UK to "set
the people free".
1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic
Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship
Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in
Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming
the first person to make a solo
flight across the Pacific Ocean
in a balloon.
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