WHAT HAPPENED ON 21. FEBRUARY
Want to find out what all happened on 21. February

The New Yorker publishes its first issue. (21. February 1925)

The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. (21. February 1937)

World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. (21. February 1945)

In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. (21. February 1947)

NASCAR is incorporated. (21. February 1948)

The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". (21. February 1952)

The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). (21. February 1952)

The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. (21. February 1958)

Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. (21. February 1965)

Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland. (21. February 1970)

The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. (21. February 1971)

President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. (21. February 1972)

The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. (21. February 1972)

Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108. (21. February 1973)

The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. (21. February 1974)

Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. (21. February 1975)

The Legend of Zelda, the first game of The Legend of Zelda series, was released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System. (21. February 1986)

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. (21. February 1995)

Two bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India, kill at least 17 people and injure more than 100 others. (21. February 2013)