Girls Talk: February 21 in History

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It’s all about birthdays this month on Girls Talk. Specifically for today, though, the topic is Birthday Trivia, so we’re supposed to write about interesting stuff about our own birthdays. Well, my birthday is on the 21st of February. So, I looked that up on Wikipedia and here’s what I got.

February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of the year (314 in leap years).

Events

1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.

1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.

1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.

1937 – Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman’s Arrowbile.

1958 – The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.

1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.

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.

Births

1955 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor

1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer

1963 – William Baldwin, American actor

1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress

1986 – Charlotte Church, Welsh singer

1987 – Ellen Page, Canadian actress

1987 – Ashley Greene, American model and actress

Deaths

1965 – Malcolm X, Black American civil rights leader (b. 1925)

2008 – Sunny Lowry, first British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)

Holidays

Christian Feast Day

International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

Language Movement Day, celebrated by Bengali speaking people for gaining right of mother tongue. (Bangladesh)

The first day of Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City)

Wow, it’s surprising to find out that Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ellen Page and Ashley Greene, all actresses that I like were actually born on February 21 too. Jennifer Love Hewitt actually has the exact same birthday as mine. Cool!

Other interesting facts about my birthday, according to PokeMyBirthday.com, are as follows:

My lucky days are Wednesday (Conceivement date, my parents decided not to have an abortion, I was born) and Thursday (My first cell is built, my mother suspected she was pregnant, my heart beat for the first time).

I am exactly 32 years, 20 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours, 19 minutes, 10 seconds old.

What about your birthday?