407 Historic Events for February 21
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| 1885 |
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Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
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| 1885 |
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Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)
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| 1887 |
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Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
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| 1887 |
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1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
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| 1887 |
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Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
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| 1888 |
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Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon and Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
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| 1888 |
Birth |
Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
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| 1889 |
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Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
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| 1892 |
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Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist
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| 1893 |
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Andr‚s Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist
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| 1893 |
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Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
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| 1894 |
Death |
Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45
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| 1895 |
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NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
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| 1896 |
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Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
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| 1897 |
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Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
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| 1898 |
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Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
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| 1900 |
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Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir)
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones and Son)
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| 1902 |
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Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
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| 1902 |
Event |
Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
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| 1902 |
Birth |
Bob [Hijman] Scholte, Dutch vocalist [or 1909]
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| 1902 |
Birth |
John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs [or 1909]
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Eric Fogg, composer
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| 1903 |
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Ana‹s Nin, Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense)
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| 1903 |
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Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
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