02-21-2005, 06:15 AM
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February 21st
1743 ~ The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson.
1875 ~ Birthday of Jeanne Calment. She then went on to live for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
1893 ~ Birthday of Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist.
1903 ~ Birthday of Anaïs Nin, Writer.
1907 ~ Birthday of W. H. Auden, Poet.
1916 ~ World War I: The Battle of Verdun began. The battle was fought between February 21 and 19 December 1916, and resulted in nearly one million deaths and an additional 450,000 wounded and missing.
1947 ~ Edwin Land demonstrated the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1965 ~ Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam..
1975 ~ Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison.
1991 ~ Death of Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer.
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