Editing February 21 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[452]] or [[453]] &ndash; [[Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis]], is martyred in Palestine.<ref>{{citation|page=195|last=Butler|first=Alban|title=The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXgTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA195|accessdate=2021-07-26|year=1821|archive-date=2021-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726142956/https://books.google.com/books?id=MXgTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA195|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1245]] &ndash; [[Thomas (bishop of Finland)|Thomas]], the first known [[Bishop of Finland]], is granted resignation after confessing to torture and [[forgery]].
*[[1440]] &ndash; The [[Prussian Confederation]] is formed.

===1601–1900===
*[[1613]] &ndash; [[Michael I of Russia|Mikhail I]] is unanimously elected [[Tsar]] by a [[Zemsky Sobor|national assembly]], beginning the [[Romanov dynasty]] of [[Imperial Russia]].
*[[1797]] &ndash; A force of 1,400 French soldiers [[Battle of Fishguard|invaded Britain]] at [[Fishguard]] in support of the [[Society of United Irishmen]]. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
*[[1804]] &ndash; The first self-propelling [[steam locomotive]] makes its outing at the [[Penydarren Ironworks|Pen-y-Darren Ironworks]] in Wales.
*[[1808]] &ndash; Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at [[Abborfors]] in eastern Finland, thus beginning the [[Finnish War]], in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
*[[1828]] &ndash; Initial issue of the [[Cherokee Phoenix]] is the first periodical to use the [[Cherokee syllabary]] invented by [[Sequoyah]].
*[[1842]] &ndash; John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the [[sewing machine]].
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] publish ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]''.
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Mariehamn]], the capital city of [[Åland]], is founded.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Union of the Baltic Cities|editor=Żaboklicki, Paweł|first=Robert|last=Mann|title=Mariehamn Celebrates|page=34|publisher=The UBC Bulletin|number=1|year=2011}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Valverde]] is fought near [[Fort Craig]] in [[New Mexico Territory]].
*[[1874]] &ndash; The ''[[Oakland Daily Tribune]]'' publishes its first edition.
*[[1878]] &ndash; The first [[telephone directory]] is issued in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].
*[[1885]] &ndash; The newly completed [[Washington Monument]] is dedicated.
*[[1896]] &ndash; An Englishman raised in Australia, [[Bob Fitzsimmons]], fought an Irishman, [[Peter Maher (boxer)|Peter Maher]], in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the [[1896 World Heavyweight Championship]] in [[boxing]].

===1901–present===
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Ioannina]] is incorporated into the [[Greek state]] after the [[Balkan Wars]].
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: In France, the [[Battle of Verdun]] begins.
*[[1918]] &ndash; The last [[Carolina parakeet]] dies in captivity at the [[Cincinnati Zoo]].
*[[1919]] &ndash; German socialist [[Kurt Eisner]] is [[assassination|assassinated]]. His death results in the establishment of the [[Bavarian Soviet Republic]] and parliament and government fleeing [[Munich]], Germany.
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Constituent Assembly of Georgia|Constituent Assembly]] of the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] adopts the country's first constitution.
*  1921   &ndash; [[Rezā Shāh]] takes control of Tehran during a [[1921 Persian coup d'état|successful coup]].
*[[1925]] &ndash; ''[[The New Yorker]]'' publishes its first issue.
*[[1929]] &ndash; In the first battle of the [[Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong]] against the [[Nationalist government]] of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.{{sfnp|Fuller|1943|p=143}}
*[[1937]] &ndash; The [[League of Nations]] bans foreign national "[[Unlawful combatant|volunteers]]" in the [[Spanish Civil War]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: During the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]], Japanese [[kamikaze]] planes sink the escort carrier {{USS|Bismarck Sea|CVE-95|6}} and damage the {{USS|Saratoga|CV-3|6}}.
*  1945   &ndash; World War II:  the [[Brazilian Expeditionary Force]] defeat the German forces in the [[Battle of Monte Castello]] on the [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italian front]].
*[[1947]] &ndash; In New York City, [[Edwin Land]] demonstrates the first "[[instant camera]]", the [[Polaroid Land Camera]], to a meeting of the [[Optical Society of America]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[NASCAR]] is incorporated.
*[[1952]] &ndash; The British government, under [[Winston Churchill]], abolishes [[Identity document|identity cards]] in the UK to "set the people free".
*  1952   &ndash; The [[Bengali Language Movement]] protests occur at the [[University of Dhaka]] in [[East Pakistan]] (now [[Bangladesh]]).
*[[1958]] &ndash; The CND symbol, aka [[peace symbol]], commissioned by the [[Direct Action Committee]] in protest against the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]], is designed and completed by [[Gerald Holtom]].
*[[1971]] &ndash; The [[Convention on Psychotropic Substances]] is signed at [[Vienna]].
*[[1972]] &ndash; United States President [[Richard Nixon]] visits China to normalize [[Sino-American relations]].
*  1972   &ndash; The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] uncrewed [[Spacecraft|spaceship]] [[Luna 20]] lands on the Moon.
*[[1973]] &ndash; Over the [[Sinai Desert]], Israeli [[fighter aircraft]] shoot down [[Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114]] jet killing 108 people.
*[[1974]] &ndash; The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the [[Suez Canal]] pursuant to a truce with [[Egypt]].
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Aldrich Ames]] is arrested by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] for selling national secrets to the [[Soviet Union]] in [[Arlington County, Virginia]].<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/aldrich-ames][[Federal Bureau of Investigation]][https://www.fbi.gov/][https://irp.fas.org/congress/1994_rpt/ssci_ames.htm][https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/ames.htm]</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Steve Fossett]] lands in [[Leader, Saskatchewan]], Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a [[hot air balloon|balloon]].
*[[2013]] &ndash; At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following [[2013 Hyderabad blasts|several bombings]] in the [[India]]n city of [[Hyderabad]].
*[[2022]] &ndash; In the [[prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] declares the [[Luhansk People's Republic]] and [[Donetsk People's Republic]] as independent from [[Ukraine]], and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-02-22|title=Russia strongly condemned at UN after Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/22/russia-strongly-condemned-at-un-after-putin-orders-troops-into-eastern-ukraine|access-date=2022-02-27|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>