February 21st

The February 21st is the 52e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 313 days before the end of the year (314 so bissextile).

Events

1 with 1600

17th century

  • 1604 : The Parlement of Paris hands down a judgment to the profit of the inhabitants of the low cities and suburbs of Bar and borough of Longueville making call of a decision of the duke of Lorraine about the imposition of certain taxes, which had been decided by an assembly of the clergy and the nobility to which the third-state had not been convened.

  • 1613 : Michel Romanov, wire of the patriarch of Moscow, is elected tsar of Russia, melting a Dynastie which will bear its name.
  • 1632 : Galileo, protected by the Pope Urbain VIII and the large-duke from Tuscany Ferdinand II from Médicis, makes appear with Florence its dialog of the Massimi sistemi ( Dialog on the two great systems of the world ), where he implicitly scoffs the Géocentrisme at Ptolémée. The following year, it will have to undergo its lawsuit.

18th century

19th century

  • 1804 : the United Kingdom: the first circulation on rails close to Merthyr Tydfil to the Wales of an engine with vapor built by Richard Trevithick.

  • 1838 : The American inventor Samuel Morse makes the presentation of his electric telegraph in front of the US president.
  • 1846 : The first woman telegraphist takes up duty to the the United States.
  • 1849 : In India, the Britanniques beat the Sikhs in Gujrat.
  • 1874 : Major Walter Windfield invents a play of outdoor which it names lawn tennis , become lawn tennis later.
  • 1878 : The first phone book of the history, in which the names of 58 subscribers are registered, is published in New Haven, with the Connecticut.

20th century

  • 1901 : Cuba becomes an independent republic.

  • 1905 : Presentation of the “bill of autonomy” aims at creating starting from the Territories of the North-West the new Canadian provinces of the Alberta and the Saskatchewan.
  • 1916 : Beginning of the Battle of Verdun. The German pilοnnent the French pοsitions аvеc 1225 parts d'аrtillery.
  • 1919 : The chief of the Bavarian government, Kurt Eisner, is assassinated with Munich.
  • 1922 : End of British protectorate on the Egypt.
  • 1934 :
    • Refusal by the legislative Parliament of the Quebec to recognize the female vote.
    • the French Army engages of the operations against the Berbères of the High Atlas, with the Morocco.
  • 1935 : Sacha Guitry wife with Jacqueline Delubac.
  • 1941 : The Allies unload in Erythrée, then Italian colony.
  • 1943 : The king of England Georges VI offers a sword of honor to the town of Stalingrad.
  • 1944 : Execution of 22 members of the group Manouchian with the Mount Valérien
  • 1945: Opening of the Conference of Chapultepec, joining together 21 States of the American continent, which will try to establish a treaty on inter-American solidarity.
  • 1946 :
    • the duration of the work is brought back to 40 hours weekly in France.
    • Publication with Hamburg, with the downstream of the British occupying forces of the first number of the German liberal weekly magazine Die Zeit , the magazine of Protestant intelligentsia.
  • 1947 : Demonstration of the camera Polaroid. Invented by Edwin H. Land, it is the first apparatus to take, develop and print images on photographic paper.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • the European Union prohibits all exports of cattle, meat and milk coming from the Great Britain following a epidemic of Foot-and-mouth disease noted the last February 19th.
    • the departmental veterinary services French receive instruction to implement the program " of pre-alarm Foot-and-mouth disease " , to count and put under sequestration of the animals of the significant species (ovine, porcine, bovine, caprine and other biungulate) imported the United Kingdom, at the time of the last 30 days. A note of information is addressed to the conveyers, to the customs and to the professionals.
    • the pope Jean-Paul II names 44 new cardinal.
  • 2002 :
    • a Hélicoptère of the Sudanese armed flies over a building of the World food program the United Nations and fires five rockets on a crowd from several thousands from civilians gathered to receive food, killing 24 people, in Bieh.
    • Two provided education for schoolboys of the department of Var with Cuers, penetrate in the Gymnase of their college and sprinkle their comrades of a sulphuric product containing Acid being used to emerge the drains.
    • Patrice Alegre is condemned by the Court of Assizes of Haute-Garonne, France, with the life imprisonment (accompanied with a 22 years minimum recommended sentence) for six rapes and five murders made between 1989 and 1997.
  • 2003 :
    • Hans Blix request with the Iraqi government destruction by on March 1st of the missiles Al-Samoud 2 .
    • Anne Quéméré arrives at the Guadeloupe after a crossing of the Atlantique at the oar, as a recluse. It beats even the record of the men in 56 days, 12 hours and 10 minutes.
  • 2005 :
    • Quebec: Launching of the Channel Money, an economic chain of information continuously Frenchwoman.
    • the examining magistrate in load of the investigation into the Office HLM of the Town of Paris returns a withdrawal of case in favor of Jean Tiberi, former mayor of the capital, put in examination for complicity of trading of favors.
    • George W. Bush makes with Brussels a speech very awaited on the future of the transatlantic relations, marking the departure of its European round of five days reconciliation.
    • Of tens of thousands of sympathizers of the opposition ravels with Beirut by stressing hostile slogans with the Syria, one week after the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
    • a student of Beijing ( Beijing ) (China), Lu Jiaping, member of the Chinese Company of research on the history of the Second world war address letters, with the members of the Standing Committee of the Central committee of the Chinese Communist party, with the Congress of the Chinese people and the political advisory Commission of the Chinese people to denounce various scandals in which would be implied the former president Jiang Zemin.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Festivals (First names)

  • Pierre-Damien, Pip, Réginald

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Eustathe d' Antioche († 377), bishop and confessor.
  • Felix of Metz († 128), bishop and confessor.
  • Georges d' Amastris († 811), monk and bishop.
  • German of Münsterthel († 7th century), abbot.
  • Gombert († 675), bishop and franque confessor of origin.
  • Gwenn of Brittany.
  • Irene († 379), virgin.
  • Jean III the Scholastic († 577), confessor and patriarch of Constantinople.
  • Holy Pip of Landen († 640), mayor of the palate of Austrasie under Clotaire II and Dagobert Ier.
  • Pierre Mavimène († 734), martyr.
  • Timothée of the monastery of the Symbols († 795), confessor.
  • Zacharie of Jerusalem († 614), confessor and patriarch of Jerusalem.

Catholic saints of the day

  • Holy No5el Pinot († 1794), priest and martyr with Angers.
  • Saint Pierre Damien (1007 - 1072), bishop of Ostie, confessor and Doctors of the Church, martyr.
  • Réginald († 1220), disciple and companion of holy Dominique

See too

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