February 21

This day in history:

• 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
• 1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
• 1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
• 1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.

Births:

• 1992 – Phil Jones, English footballer
• 1953 – William Petersen, American actor and producer
• 1895 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

Deaths:

• 2008 – Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)
• 1985 – Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)

Holidays:

• The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)
• International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)
• *Christian feast day:*

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