21 Februar

The **21st o Februar** is the 52nt day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 313 days ti come (314 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1437 - King James I o Scotland is murthert.
* 1613 - Michael I o Roushie becomes Tsar, stairtin the Romanov Dynasty's 300 year on the Roushie throne.
* 1848 - Karl Marx an Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
* 1858 - The Greek ceety o Corinth is destroyed bi a yirdquauk; it is rebiggit 6 kilometres away.
* 1875 - Jeanne Calment is born in the Sooth o Fraunce. She goes on tae live frae 122 year, 164 days, the langest-recordit human life-span.
* 1878 - The first telephone beuk is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1885 - The newly completit Washington Monument is dedicatit.
* 1916 - Warld War I: The Battle o Verdun in Fraunce begins.
* 1958 - The peace symbol is creatit bi Gerald Holtom.
* 1965 - American activist Malcolm X is assassinatit.
* 1972 - US Preses Richard Nixon visits the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae tae stairt closer relations.
* 1995 - Jeanne Calment becomes the first-recordit human tae reach the age o 120 year.
* 2002 - A Scots weemen's curlin team wins Olympic gowd for Great Breetain in Salt Lake City.
* 2003 - Croatie applies tae jyn the European Union.
* 2005 - Avalanches in Jammu an Kashmir kill ower 100 fowk.
* 2007 - Prime meenister o Italy Romano Prodi attempts tae resign, but it is rejectit bi Preses Giorgio Napolitano.
* 2014 - A Scots men's curlin team loses the Olympic feenal tae Canadae, winnin the siller medal for Great Breetain.

## Births

* 1728 - Peter III o Roushie (d. 1762)
* 1791 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Preses o Mexico (d. 1876)
* 1836 - Alexander Dickson, Scots botanist an airtist (d. 1887)
* 1875 - Jeanne Calment, auldest-recordit person ever (d. 1997)
* 1895 - Henrik Dam, Dens chemist (d. 1976)
* 1907 - W. H. Auden, Inglis poet (d. 1973)
* 1921 - John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002)
* 1924 - Robert Mugabe, Preses o Zimbabwe
* 1929 - Chespirito, Mexican actor, director, producer an screenwriter (d. 2014)
* 1933 - Nina Simone, American sangster (d. 2003)
* 1935 - Mark McManus, Scots actor (d. 1994)
* 1937 - Harald V, Keeng o Norawa
* 1946 - Alan Rickman, Inglis actor (d. 2016)
* 1947 - Renata Sorrah, Brazilian actress
* 1952 - Vitaly Churkin, Roushie diplomat (d. 2017)
* 1955 - Kelsey Grammer, American actor
* 1967 - Neil Oliver, Scots historian
* 1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
* 1980 - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Keeng o Bhutan
* 1980 - Tiziano Ferro, Italian sangster-sangwriter
* 1983 - Lusine Gevorkyan, Roushie-Armenie sangster
* 1984 - Andreas Seppi, Italian tennis player
* 1986 - Charlotte Church, Welsh sangster
* 1987 - Elliot Page, Canadian actor
* 1989 - Corbin Bleu, American actor, sangster, muisicker an dancer
* 1996 - Sophie Turner, Inglis actress

## Daiths
* 1437 - James I o Scotland (b. 1394)
* 1513 - Pape Julius II (b. 1443)
* 1677 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
* 1730 - Pape Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
* 1826 - John Kay, Scots caricaturist an engraver (b. 1742)
* 1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch pheesicist (b. 1853)
* 1941 - Frederick Banting, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1891)
* 1945 - Eric Liddell, Scots runner (b. 1902)
* 1965 - Malcolm X, American activist (b. 1925)
* 1984 - Mikhail Sholokhov, Roushie writer (b. 1905)
* 1991 - Margot Fonteyn, Inglis dancer (b. 1919)
* 2004 - John Charles, Welsh fitbawer (b. 1931)
* 2013 - Bruce Millan, Scots politeecian (b. 1927)
* 2017 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist (b. 1921)
* 2018 - Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918)

## Halidays
*Internaitional Mither Tongue Day
*Biikebrennen (islands o Northren Germany an Soothren Denmark)