Portal:United States/Anniversaries/February/February 21

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February 21:

Events

• U.S. patent for the sewing machine
  .
• 1874 - The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
• telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut
  .
• 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• U.S. patents
  for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device".
• Cincinnati Zoo
  .
• 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
• flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile
  .
• Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga
  .
• Optical Society of America
  .
• 1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
• James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA
  molecule.
• 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
• Sino-American relations
  .
• 1975 - 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.
• 1995 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Births

• 1721 - John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
• 1821 - Charles Scribner, American publisher (d. 1871)
• 1903 - Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
• 1915 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967)
• 1917 - Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1925 - Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984)
• 1927 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
• 1933 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1934 - Rue McClanahan, American actress
• 1936 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1937 - Gary Lockwood, American actor
• 1940 - John Lewis, American politician
• 1943 - David Geffen, American record producer
• 1945 - D'Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano
• 1946 - Tyne Daly, American actress
• 1947 - Johnny Echols, American musician (Love)
• 1947 - Olympia Snowe, American politician
• 1949 - Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads)
• The Grateful Dead) (d. 2006
  )
• 1953 - Christine Ebersole, American actress
• 1953 - William Petersen, American actor
• 1955 - Kelsey Grammer, American actor
• 1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
• 1958 - Jack Coleman, American actor
• 1958 - Alan Trammell, baseball player and manager
• Steve Wynn, American singer (The Dream Syndicate
  )
• 1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1961 - Christopher Atkins, American actor
• 1961 - Martha Hackett, American actress
• 1961 -
  Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001
  )
• 1962 - Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
• 1962 - David Foster Wallace, American writer
• William Baldwin
  , American actor
• 1964 - Mark and Scott Kelly, American astronauts and identical twins
• 1967 - Leroy Burrell, American runner
• 1969 - Tony Meola, American footballer
• 1969 - Eric Wilson, American musician (Sublime)
• 1975 - Chris (CP) Powell, American columnist
• 1977 - Steve Francis, American basketball player
• 1977 - Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player
• 1977 - Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur
• 1978 - Nicole Parker, American actress
• 1979 - Lonnie Ford, American football player
• 1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
• 1983 - Braylon Edwards, American football player
• 1985 - Bob Burton, American speedcuber
• 1989 - Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
• 1989 - Kristin Herrera, American actress

Deaths

• 1715 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
• 1938 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
• 1965 - Malcolm X, American black activist (b. 1925)
• 1967 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
• 1982 - Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
• 1986 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
• 1996 - Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913)
• 1999 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
• 2005 - Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
• 2005 - Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)