1949 – Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
1969 – Phil Esposito has a goal and assist in Boston Bruins’ 8-5 win over NY Rangers to give him 99 points for the season, breaking the NHL record for most points in a season (97) held by Stan Mikita
1972 – Club of Rome publishes report “Boundaries on the Growth”
1975 – Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
1994 – Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1996 – Atlanta’s Lenny Wilkens becomes first coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 career victories when the Hawks beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 74-68
2000 – Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
2006 – Animated film “Ice Age: The Meltdown” directed by Carlos Saldanha with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Belgium
2009 – Steven Holcomb pilots USA-1 sled to victory in the 4-man competition at the World Bobsled Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg, NY; first American win in the event in 50 years
2014 – 29 people are killed and 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 28th February 2021
1893 – Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names “carborundum” (Silicon carbide)
1935 – Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1936 – Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
1961 – JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1967 – A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
1968 – Pirate Radio Hauraki, on a boat floating off coast of NZ, returns to the air
1982 – ATandT looses a record $7 BILLION for the fiscal year ending on this day
1988 – XV Winter Olympic Games close in Calgary, Canada
1995 – Denver International Airport opens
2010 – XXI Winter Olympic Games close in Vancouver, Canada
Historical Events for 27th February 2021
1865 – Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1919 – American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
1939 – Britain and France recognize Francisco Franco’s government in Spain
1966 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
1981 – Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1990 – “Hold On” single released by Wilson Phillips (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
1996 – American film production company “Happy Madison Productions” is founded by Adam Sandler
1997 – “Last Night of Ballyhoo” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1998 – 12th Soul Train Music Awards: Puff Daddy, Whitney Houston win
2002 – Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
Historical Events for 26th February 2021
1797 – Bank of England issues first £1 note
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France
1866 – New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
1907 – Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1942 – German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
1943 – German assault moves to Beja, North Tunisia
1967 – Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
1991 – NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
1995 – London finance house Barings collapses after huge losses in Singapore by rogue trader Nick Leeson
2012 – Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario
Historical Events for 25th February 2021
1751 – 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
1793 – 1st US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington’s home
1907 – US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1916 – Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I
1924 – Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
1926 – Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords
1938 – Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary
1980 – Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1995 – Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
2013 – Cuban President Raúl Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
Historical Events for 24th February 2021
1895 – Cuban war for independence begins
1908 – In ‘Muller v Oregon’, the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails ‘liberty of contract’
1938 – Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1946 – General Juan Perón first elected President of Argentina
1949 – Israel and Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1952 – Norway goes 1-2 in the men’s ski jumping event at the Oslo Winter Olympics with Arnfinn Bergmann winning gold ahead of teammate Torbjørn Falkanger
1989 – US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1997 – Deng Xiaoping the former paramount leader of China is cremated five days after he passed away
1997 – Qatar inaugurates the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.
2018 – UN Security Council passes resolution for 30 day ceasefire in Syria
Historical Events for 23rd February 2021
1540 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado’s expedition sets off from Mexico in search of the 7 cities of Cibola
1847 – Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1886 – Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1944 – Battle of Eniwetok ends as US forces complete the capture of Parry Island from the Japanese 1st Amphibious Brigade
1956 – 13th Golden Globes: “East of Eden”, Ernest Borgnine, and Anna Magnani win
1970 – Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1990 – “Hold On” single released by En Vogue (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
2014 – XXII Winter Olympic Games close in Sochi, Russia
2018 – Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis wins his second gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 1,000m; also 1,500m champion
2019 – Sri Lanka becomes first Asian cricket team to clinch a Test series in South Africa chasing down 197 in the 2nd Test in Port Elizabeth; Kusal Mendis 84no, Oshada Fernando 75no
Historical Events for 22nd February 2021
1281 – Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
1288 – Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1898 – Black postmaster lynched, his wife and 3 daughters shot in Lake City, South Carolina
1934 – André Malraux and Édouard Corniglion-Molinier set out to find the lost capital of the Queen of Sheba, as mentioned in the Old Testament
1935 – Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1941 – German assault on El Agheila Libya
1945 – Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
2014 – After winning the men’s parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian snowboarder Vic Wild wins his 2nd gold in the parallel slalom
2019 – Robert Kraft, owner of NFL team the New England Patriots, charged with soliciting prostitution, as part of human-trafficking sting operation in Jupiter, Florida
2019 – Actor Jussie Smollett suspended from US TV show “Empire” after revealed that actor made false claims about racist and homophobic attack
Historical Events for 21st February 2021
1858 – Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Massachusetts)
1864 – -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
1887 – Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
1934 – Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard
1944 – “War As It Happens” news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
1950 – WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 – Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1985 – Evert van Benthem wins his 13th Elfstedentocht, a long distance 11 city skating race
1989 – Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
2011 – Thailand’s GDP rose 3.8% in the fourth quarter of 2010 after a minor recession caused by GDP contractions of 0.4% in the second quarter and 0.3% in the third quarter of 2010, it is reported today
Historical Events for 20th February 2021
1710 – Johan Willem Friso becomes Viceroy of Groningen, Netherlands
1935 – Dane Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman to land on Antarctica
1963 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays becomes the highest-paid player in MLB, signing a record $100,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants
1966 – Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1980 – Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the 4 x 10k relay; also wins 30k and 50k gold
1982 – NY Islanders win then NHL record 15th straight game by beating Colorado Rockies, 3-2 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
1992 – Ross Perot says he’ll run for President on “Larry King Live”
1994 – Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
2010 – On the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, leaving at least 32 deaths in the worst disaster on the history of the archipelago.
2016 – 4-inch lock of John Lennon’s hair sells for $35,000 to a memorabilia collector at an auction in Dallas, Texas