This Day in History
21 Feb 1245
Thomas the first known Bishop of Finland is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery
21 Feb 1574
Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders
21 Feb 1583
Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar
21 Feb 1613
Michael Romanov son of Patriarch of Moscow elected first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov
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Rockefeller imposter and convicted felon born
On this day in 1961 Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter a con man who went by the alias Clark Rockefeller and passed himself off as an American blueblood is born i...
Dolly Parton cements her crossover success as 9 to 5″ hits #1
In 1980 Dolly Parton brought the full range of her talents to bear on a project that would cement her crossover from country music to mainstream superstardom. ...
Nixon in China
President Richard M. Nixon arrives in Beijing the capital of the Peoples Republic of China on the first presidential visit to the worlds most ...
Marx publishes Manifesto
On February 21 1848 The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels is published in London by a group of German-born re...
Malcolm X assassinated
In New York City Malcolm X an African American nationalist and religious leader is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of A...
Nixon visits China
President Richard Nixon visits the Peoples Republic of China. After arriving in Beijing the president announced that his breakthrough visit to China i...
Kissinger begins secret negotiations with North Vietnamese
National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger begins secret peace talks with North Vietnamese representative Le Duc Tho the fifth-ranking member of the Hanoi Polit...
Bernard Fall killed by mine in South Vietnam
Writer and historian Bernard B. Fall is killed by a Viet Cong mine while accompanying a U.S. Marine patrol along the seacoast about 14 miles northwest of Hue o...
Dick Button wins second Olympic figure skating gold
On this day in 1952 mens figure skater Dick Button wins his second Olympic gold medal. Button captured his first gold prize at the 1948 Olympics becom...
John Quincy Adams suffers a stroke
On this day in 1848 just as he stands up from his desk in the House of Representatives to defend his no vote on a bill former President John Quincy Adams sudd...
Cherokee receive their first printing press
The first printing press designed to use the newly invented Cherokee alphabet arrives at New Echota Georgia.The General Council of the Cherokee Nation had purc...
Erma Bombeck is born
On this day in 1927 humorist Erma Bombeck is born in Dayton Ohio.Bombeck studied English at Ohio University and the University of Dayton and worked part time ...
Garbo’s first U.S. film opens
The glamorous husky-voiced Swedish actress Greta Garbo known for her almost unearthly beauty and intense desire for privacy makes her U.S. screen debut in Th...
Tornadoes move across Mississippi River Delta
On this day in 1971 the Mississippi River Delta is pounded by powerful tornadoes that kill more than 100 people. The storm that caused the twisters moved up fr...
Double agent Aldrich Ames is arrested
CIA operative Aldrich Ames is arrested for selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames had access to the names and identities of all U.S. spies in Russia and by ...
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