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− | February 21 | + | '''February 21''' in history: |
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| + | * 1972: President Richard M. Nixon began his historic visit to mainland [[Directory:China|China]]; the event is oddly commemorated in John Adams's opera Nixon in China. |
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| + | * 1965: Malcolm X, the influential black-nationalist advocate who had split away from the Nation of Islam, was shot and killed in New York City by assassins thought to be connected with that group. |
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| + | * 1925: The New Yorker magazine first appeared, under the editorial guidance of Harold Ross, who announced that it was not designed for "the little old lady in Dubuque." |
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| + | * 1916: During World War I, the Germans launched an offensive on the region surrounding Verdun, which lay in the middle of an Allied salient jutting into the German zone in northeastern [[Directory:France|France]]; this began one of the longest and bloodiest encounters of the war. |
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| + | * 1868: President Andrew Johnson dismissed Edwin Stanton as secretary of war, defying the Tenure of Office Act passed by Congress over Johnson's veto; this action spurred the House of Representatives to impeach Johnson three days later. |
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| + | * 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Communist Manifesto in London; intended as a platform statement for a small international workers' party, the Communist League, it began with the introductory words, "A specter is haunting [[Europe]]—the specter of Communism." |
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| + | * 1828: The first Native American newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, began publication; it was written partly in English and partly in the Cherokee syllabary, or alphabet, developed by Sequoya. |
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| + | [[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]] |