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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday" title="Shrove Tuesday">Shrove Tuesday</a></b> (Western Christianity, 2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Movement_Day" title="Language Movement Day">Language Movement Day</a></b> in Bangladesh (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1437" title="1437">1437</a> – King <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland" title="James I of Scotland"><span class="nowrap">James I</span> of Scotland</a></b> was murdered at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth,_Scotland" title="Perth, Scotland">Perth</a> in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Stewart,_Earl_of_Atholl" title="Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl">Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1828" title="1828">1828</a> – The inaugural issue of the <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix" title="Cherokee Phoenix">Cherokee Phoenix</a></b></i>, the first newspaper in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> language, was published.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1866" title="1866">1866</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Hobbs_Taylor" title="Lucy Hobbs Taylor">Lucy Hobbs Taylor</a></b> became the first woman to receive a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorate" title="Doctorate">doctorate</a> from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_school" title="Dental school">dental college</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929" title="1929">1929</a> – In the first battle of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Rebellion_in_northeastern_Shandong" title="Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong">Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong</a></b> against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_government" title="Nationalist government">Nationalist government</a> of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zongchang" title="Zhang Zongchang">Zhang Zongchang</a> was defeated at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhifu_District" title="Zhifu District">Zhifu</a> by 7,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Revolutionary_Army" title="National Revolutionary Army">NRA</a> troops.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimondo_Montecuccoli" title="Raimondo Montecuccoli">Raimondo Montecuccoli</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1609); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goscombe_John" title="Goscombe John">Goscombe John</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1860); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hooven_Santmyer" title="Helen Hooven Santmyer">Helen Hooven Santmyer</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1986)</p>