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not designed for "the little old lady in Dubuque."
February 21
'''February 21''' in history:
* 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.
* 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.
* 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."
* 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.
* 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.
* 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."
* 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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