Page 10: Historical Events In February - 21

1990  On February - 21 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win   

1991  Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances on February - 21.   

1991  USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable on February - 21.   

1991  Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1992  Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating on February - 21.   

1992  Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97 on this day in history.   

1993  43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City on February - 21.   

1993  Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters) on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76   

1994  Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68 on February - 21.   

1995  RAF-pilot Jo Salter is first woman to fly in a tornado on February - 21.   

1995  On February - 21 steve Fossett, a Chicago stockbroker, becomes the first person to make a solo balloon flight across the Pacific, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.   

1995  Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1996  On February - 21 soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit   

1996  Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1997  "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres on this day in history.   

1997  On this day in history sTS 82 (Discovery 22) lands   

1997  Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81 on February - 21.   

2012  Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi on this day in history.   

2012  Greek government debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, .130-billion Greek bailout on February - 21.   

2013  On February - 21 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria   

2014  On February - 21 11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia   

2017  Bodies of 87 African migrants wash ashore at Zawiya, Libya on February - 21.   

2017  On February - 21 plane crashes into shopping centre in Essendon, Melbourne, Australia killing the five people on board   

2018  Indian film star Kamal Haasan launches a new political party - Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu state on this day in history.   

2018  On February - 21 winter Olympics: Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall become the first Americans in history to win a cross country gold medal (team sprint)   

2019  On this day in history spaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.   

2021  On this day in history australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia wins a record extending 9th Australian title; dominates Russian Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2   

2021  On February - 21 india's BJP party issues resolution country had "defeated COVID under the able, sensitive, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ”, massive second wave hits two months later   

2023  On February - 21 vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US.   

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1417  On this day in history birth of louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)   

1484  On February - 21 birth of joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)   

1556  On this day in history birth of sethus Calvisius, composer   

1674  On February - 21 birth of johann Augustin Kobelius, composer   

1675  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)   

1684  On February - 21 birth of justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)   

1690  Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer was born on February - 21.   

1705  On this day in history birth of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)   

0556  Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies on February - 21.   

1437  Death of King James I of Scotland (b. 1394) on this day in history.   

1471  On February - 21 death of john of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop   

1513  Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1554  Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies on this day in history.   

1595  Death of Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged on February - 21.   

1624  On February - 21 dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28   

1648  Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies on this day in history.