Language 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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