Feb 21, Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati. Conn. It contained the names of its 50 subscribers. 1885 Feb 21, The Washington Monument was dedicated by Pres. Chester A. Arthur. 1905 Feb 21, The Mukden campaign of the Russo-Japanese War, began.
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young.
Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. 1916 Feb 21, The World War I Battle of Verdun began in France with an unprecedented German artillery barrage of the French lines. 1920 Feb 21, Robert S. Johnson, was born. He became the American World War II fighter ace who shot down 27 German planes. 1925 Feb 21, The first issue of the New Yorker magazine hit the newsstands.