Historical Events on February 21.

1. International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

2. 1842, 21st Feb: George Greeno received a patent for a sewing machine.

3. 1848, 21st Feb: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto.

4. 1878, 21st Feb: The first telephone directory was published in New Haven, Connecticut.

5. 1915, 21st Feb: Armed revolutionary uprisings took place in Lahore, Benaras, and Meerut.

6. 1952, 21st Feb: Demonstration of official language status to the Bengali language at Dhaka University in East Pakistan (present-Day Bangladesh).

7. 1959, 21st Feb: Establishment of Press Club of India in New Delhi.

8. 1972, 21st Feb: Soviet Unmanned spacecraft Luna 20 landed on the moon.

9. 1999, 21st Feb: Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration.

10. 2013, 21st Feb: At least 17 people were killed and 119 injured in a series of bomb blasts in Hyderabad.

11. 2018, 21st Feb: Indian film star Kamal Haasan launched a new political party – Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu state.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on February 21.

1. 1703: Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, an Islamic scholar.

2. 1829: Ameer Minai, a 19th-century Indian poet. 

3. 1878: Mirra Alfassa, a spiritual guru, an occultist and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

4. 1894: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator.

5. 1899: Suryakant Tripathi, Nirala, an Indian poet, novelist, essayist, and story-writer. 

6. 1924: Gulab Khandelwal, an Indian poet.

7. 1911: Bhabatosh Datta, a noted Indian economist, academic, and writer.

1943: David Lawrence Geffen, an American business magnate, and co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on February 21.

1. 1677: Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher.

2. 1829: Kitturu Chennamma, the Queen of the Nayakas of the kingdom of Kittur.

3. 1965: Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister, and human rights activist.

4. 1991: Nutan, an Indian film actress.

5. 1998: Om Prakash Bakshi, an Indian character actor.

6. 2011: Dwayne McDuffie, an American writer of comic books.