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02/21/1885
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Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1885
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Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)
Type: Event
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02/21/1887
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Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
Type: Birth
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02/21/1887
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1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
Type: Event
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02/21/1887
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Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
Type: Event
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02/21/1888
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Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon and Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1888
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Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1889
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Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1892
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Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist
Type: Birth
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02/21/1893
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Andr‚s Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist
Type: Birth
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02/21/1893
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Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1894
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Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45
Type: Death
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02/21/1895
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NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
Type: Event
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02/21/1896
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Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1897
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Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1898
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Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1900
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Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1900
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Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones and Son)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1902
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Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1902
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Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
Type: Event
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02/21/1902
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Bob [Hijman] Scholte, Dutch vocalist [or 1909]
Type: Birth
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02/21/1902
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John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs [or 1909]
Type: Birth
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02/21/1903
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Eric Fogg, composer
Type: Birth
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02/21/1903
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Ana‹s Nin, Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1903
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Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
Type: Event
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02/21/1903
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Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1903
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Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1903
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Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1904
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Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
Type: Birth
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02/21/1904
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National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich
Type: Event
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02/21/1907
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SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead)
Type: Event
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02/21/1907
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Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1909
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John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
Type: Event
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02/21/1909
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Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
Type: Birth
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02/21/1909
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George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
Type: Birth
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02/21/1909
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Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist
Type: Birth
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02/21/1910
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John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London
Type: Event
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02/21/1910
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Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1911
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Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse ‚l‚gique)
Type: Event
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02/21/1912
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Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire
Type: Birth
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02/21/1912
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Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1912
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Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1913
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Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969- )
Type: Birth
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02/21/1914
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Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1914
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Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1914
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White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
Type: Event
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02/21/1915
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20th Russian Army corps surrenders
Type: Event
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02/21/1915
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Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1915
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Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Another World)
Type: Birth
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02/21/1915
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World's Fair in SF opens
Type: Event
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