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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1746" title="1746">1746</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745" title="Jacobite rising of 1745">Jacobite rising of 1745</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Inverness_(1746)" title="Siege of Inverness (1746)">siege of Inverness</a></b> ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate Army</a> began <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_campaign" title="New Mexico campaign">an attempt to gain control of the Southwest</a> with a major victory in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valverde" title="Battle of Valverde">Battle of Valverde</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a> – A number of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language_movement" title="Bengali language movement">student protesters demanding the establishment</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a> as an official language were killed by police in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a>, East Pakistan.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965" title="1965">1965</a> – American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_nationalism" title="Black nationalism">Black nationalist</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a></b> was assassinated while giving a speech in New York City's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audubon_Ballroom" title="Audubon Ballroom">Audubon Ballroom</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a> – After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114" title="Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114">Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114</a></b> was shot down by two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">fighter aircraft</a>, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Caesar" title="Gaius Caesar">Gaius Caesar</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> AD 4); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Delibes" title="Léo Delibes">Léo Delibes</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1836); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incas_(parakeet)" title="Incas (parakeet)">Incas (parakeet)</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1918); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Page" title="Elliot Page">Elliot Page</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1987)</p>
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