February 21
Jump to:
Events on This Day
1842 - John J. Greenough of Washington, DC patented a leather stitching/sewing machine on this day.1878 - The first telephone directories issued in the U.S. were distributed to residents of New Haven, CT. George Williard Coy and a group of investors in the New Haven District Telephone Company created the ‘books’. It was easy to “Let Your Fingers Do the Walking” at that time as only a few dozen subscribers’ names were listed on a a single sheet of paper.
1885 - The official dedication of the Washington Monument took place in Washington, D.C., although the monument wasn’t completed for another three years. In fact, the structure took a total of thirty-six years to finish. Construction took place in two major phases, 1848-1856, and 1876-1884. The Civil War and a lack of funds caused the big delay. The stone obelisk honoring the first President of the United States was designed by Robert Mills who died in this, the year of the dedication.
1925 - The first issue of The New Yorker was published.
1932 - William N. Goodwin of Newark, New Jersey patented the camera exposure meter. So, if your prints aren’t turning out like they should, blame him or, better yet, change your exposure setting. It’s written right there in the instruction manual that you read when you got the camera. You did read it, didn’t you?
1943 - The Free World Theatre debuted on the Blue network (now ABC radio). The program was produced and directed by Arch Oboler.
1945 - The Lion and the Mouse was first broadcast on Brownstone Theatre, which premiered this day on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1947 - Edwin Land demonstrated a nifty new gadget to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper (in black and white back then) all in about a minute. He called his invention the Polaroid Land Camera. It became an ‘instant’ success.
1950 - The first International Pancake Race was held in Liberal, Kansas. The annual event, scheduled each year on Shrove Tuesday, pits the women of Liberal against the women of Olney, Bucks, England. Wearing dresses and aprons, their heads covered in scarves, the women run a 415-yard, ‘S’ shaped course. Each woman also carries a pancake in a skillet and must toss the pancake three times. The fastest pancake carrier ran the race in 58.5 seconds in 1975. This record was set by Liberal’s Sheila Turner. Toss the syrup, please!
1951 - Robert O. Peterson, a San Diego businessman and restaurateur, opened the first Jack in the Box restaurant at 6270 El Cajon Blvd. The company operates or franchises more than 2,200 ‘quick-serve’ restaurants in 21 states and Guam.
1952 - Dick Button performed the first figure skating triple jump in competition.
1958 - A plebiscite held in Syria and Egypt gave nearly unanimous (99.9%) approval to the federation of the two countries as the United Arab Republic (UAR), with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt as president.
1965 - Black activist Malcolm X was shot by Black Muslim assassins as he was about to address a rally in New York. He had broken from the Nation of Islam to found his own Organization of Afro-American Unity. Fifteen hundred people attended Malcolm’s funeral in Harlem at the Faith Temple Church of God in Christ on February 27, 1965.
1972 - The group known as Climax received a gold record for their one and only hit, Precious and Few. The LA-based group was led by Sonny Geraci, formerly of the The Outsiders (of Time Won’t Let Me fame).
1973 - A civilian Libyan Airlines Boeing 727 was shot down by Israeli fighters over Sinai after it had strayed off course; 108 died, five survived. Officials claimed that the pilot of Libyan Flight 114 had ignored fighters’ warnings to land.
1975 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.
1981 - Dolly Parton reached the top spot on the pop music charts with 9 to 5, from the movie of the same name, in which Dolly starred with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. The hit song stayed at #1 for a week, gave way to Eddie Rabbitt’s I Love a Rainy Night and bounced back two weeks later for another week at number one.
1981 - REO Speedwagon’s Hi Infidelity was the #1 U.S. album. Hi-Infidelity spent a total of fifteen weeks at number one. The tracks: Don’t Let Him Go, Keep on Loving You, Follow My Heart, In Your Letter, Take It on the Run, Tough Guys, Out of Season, Shakin’ It Loose, Someone Tonight, I Wish You Were There.
1982 - Legendary disc jockey Murray The K died in Los Angeles. Often referred to as ‘The Fifth Beatle’, Murray succumbed to cancer. He had been one of rock radio’s leading jocks and a big New York City radio personality for many years.
1988 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert resigned from his ministry after it was revealed he had been consorting with a prostitute. In front of a congregation of 7,000 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he sobbed and said, “I have sinned against you and I beg your forgiveness.”
1989 - Opening arguments began in the Iran-Contra criminal trial of former national security aide Oliver North.
1991 - Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers premiered on Broadway in New York. The play won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and ran for 780 performances, closing Jan 03, 1993.
1992 - Kristi Yamaguchi of the United States won the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Albertville Olympics. Midori Ito of Japan won the silver, Nancy Kerrigan of the U.S. won the bronze.
1994 - Longtime CIA counterintelligence officer Aldrich Ames and his wife were charged with selling information to the Soviet Union and Russia. Ames was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. His wife, Rosario, was convicted and deported to Colombia when she was paroled in 1999.
1995 - Former Chicago stockbroker and U.S. balloonist Steve Fossett made history. He was the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada on this day.
1996 - Composer Morton Gould died. He was 82 years old.
1997 - Rosewood opened in U.S. theatres. The action, drama stars Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle and Bruce Mcgill.
1998 - Julian Bond was elected chairman of the 64-member board of the NAACP.
1999 - The People’s Democratic Party of Nigeria, led by General Olusegun Obasanjo won 169 of 360 seats in the House.
2000 - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader announced his entry into the U.S. presidential race, bidding for the nomination of the Green Party.
2000 - Avalanches in Italy killed three skiers in the northern Venosta Valley, while three more skiers were killed at Davos in Switzerland.
2001 - At the Grammy Awards Steely Dan won Album of the Year for Two Against Nature; U2 won for Song of the Year for Beautiful Day; Sting won best male pop vocal performance for She Walks This Earth; and Macy Gray won best female pop vocal performance for I Try. U2 and rapper Eminem won three Grammys.
2002 - The U.S. State Department declared that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was dead. The announcement came a month after Pearl was abducted by Islamic extremists in Pakistan.
2003 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Dark Blue, with Kurt Russell, Brendan Gleeson, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele, Lolita Davidovich and Ving Rhames; Gods and Generals, starring Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell and Frankie Faison; The Life of David Gale, with Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven, Rhona Mitra and Leon Rippy; and Old School, starring Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Ellen Pompeo, Juliette Lewis, Leah Remini, Perrey Reeves, Craig Kilborn, Jeremy Piven, Elisha Cuthbert and Snoop Dogg.
2003 - Michael Jordan became the first 40-year-old in NBA history to score 40 or more points, getting 43 in the Washington Wizards’ win over the New Jersey Nets.
2004 - The Mississippi River was closed near New Orleans following a ship collision that killed five crewmen.
2005 - The Atomic Testing Museum opened in Las Vegas, NV.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal narcotics laws are not more important than the religious expression rights of a Brazilian-based sect that uses a hallucinogenic tea in a sacrament. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, with some 130 members in the U.S., had filed suit after federal authorities threatened prosecution after intercepting a shipment of hoasca, whose ingredients included a hallucinogenic plant, destined for the group.
2007 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain had decided to dramatically cut its 7,100-strong contingent in Iraqi.
2008 - The U.S. said it had spent $80 million monthly -- or some $1 billion a year -- for the previous six years to Pakistan to support troops in the tribal area along the Afghan border.
2009 - Film director Howard Zieff died in Los Angeles at 81 years of age. The former advertising photographer directed nine Hollywood comedies including Private Benjamin and The Main Event.
2009 - President Barack Obama ordered the U.S. Treasury to implement tax cuts for 95 percent of Americans, fulfilling a campaign pledge he hoped would help jolt the U.S. economy out of recession.
2009 - A South Korean housewife broke the world record in marathon singing after crooning for more than 76 hours without stopping. This, at a Seoul karaoke bar. Kim Sun-Ok, 54, broke the 75-hour Guinness World Record held by Marcus Lapratt of the U.S.
2010 - Israel’s air force introduced a fleet of large unmanned planes that could fly as far as Iran. Air force officials said the Heron TP drones were capable of flying for 20 consecutive hours, and were to be used for surveillance and carrying payloads.
2010 - At the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC: U.S. skier Bode Miller snatched his first Olympic gold medal and U.S. ice hockey goalkeeper Ryan Miller stopped host nation Canada in a heartbreaking loss.
2011 - Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors. U.S. naval forces, who were following the Americans’ captured yacht, Quest, in four warships, boarded the Quest after hearing the gunfire. All but two of the 19 pirates surrendered. Those two were shot and killed by the U.S. sailors.
2012 - From our Who’s in Charge Here? Dept: The Brit Awards cut off singer Adele’s speech as she accepted the main prize of the show. The snub prompted the singer to raise her middle finger at the crowd. Adele later apologized for the gesture, but explained it was simply borne out of her frustration at the ‘suits’ in the London audience preventing her from basking in her glory.
2013 - Detroit, Michigan, with its violent crimes, high unemployment, dwindling population and financial crisis, was named by Forbes magazine as the most miserable city in the United States. The city had high levels of violent crime and unemployment. Home prices, already at historic lows, plummeted a further 35% during the previous three years to a median of $40,000. And net migration out of the city continued.
2014 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Pompeii, with Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss and Emily Browning; 3 Days to Kill, starring Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld and Connie Nielsen; Highway, with Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt; In Secret, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton and Jessica Lang; the animated, and The Wind Rises, featuring the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elijah Wood and Emily Blunt.
2014 - U.S. officials announced that California’s Central Valley farmers would get no irrigation water from the federal government due to the ongoing drought. And California’s unusually dry weather forced producers of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains to make tough decisions about which crops to plant, and which ones not to plant due to a lack of water, leaving harvests that would likely to fall short of demand.
2015 - Saudi media reported that morality police had detained a group of young men for “loud music and inappropriate dancing” at a birthday party.
2015 - Cuba released Cy Tokmakjian, a Canadian automobile executive, who had been held for more than 3 years on corruption charges. His family held insisted that his prosecution had been an excuse to seize his company’s $100 million assets in Cuba.
2016 - Bolivia held a referendum to decide if President Evo Morales could stay in power for a fourth term. Days later with 99.72 percent of votes counted, electoral board president Katia Uriona said that 51.3 percent of voters cast “no” ballots in the referendum, against 48.7 percent voting “yes”.
2016 - Pope Francis called for worldwide abolition of the death penalty, saying the commandment “You shall not kill” was absolute and equally valid for the guilty -- and for the innocent.
2017 - The Washington-based Syria Institute said the Syrian government was ‘depopulating’ (besieging, starving, killing, transferring) Sunni-majority areas in the city of Homs as the government fought to consolidate its power.
2018 - Reverend Billy Graham died at his home in North Carolina. He was 99 years old. The influential Southern preacher had been a spiritual advisor to several U.S. presidents and to millions of Americans via their television sets.
2018 - Thousands of protesters, including many high school students, swarmed the Florida state capitol calling for changes to gun laws, bans on assault-type weapons and improved care for the mentally ill.
2019 - Former San Francisco police Officer Rain Dougherty pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery. The heists had been committed in 2018 in the Richmond and Sunset Districts. Dougherty had been suspended four years earlier for sending racist and homophobic text messages to other officers. Quite the role model, huh?
2019 - Peter Tork, keyboardist and bass guitarist of pop music group The Monkees, died in eastern Connecticut on this day of complications from cancer. He was 77 years old. Tork was a proficient musician before he joined The Monkees, and though other members of the group were not allowed to play their own instruments theirs albums, Tork did indeed play keyboards, bass guitar, banjo, harpsichord, and other instruments on their recordings. He co-wrote, along with Joey Richards, the closing theme song of the second season of The Monkees TV show, For Pete’s Sake.
2019 - The World Health Organization (WHO) reported the epidemic of measles in Madagascar had caused more than 900 deaths since the outbreak began in September 2018.
2020 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Brahms: The Boy II, with Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman and Ralph Ineson; The Call of the Wild, starring Karen Gillan, Harrison Ford and Cara Gee; Emma, with Tanya Reynolds, Anya Taylor-Joy and Gemma Whelan; Impractical Jokers: The Movie, starring Brian Quinn, Joe Gatto and James Murray; The Night Clerk, with Ana de Armas, Helen Hunt and John Leguizamo; and Premature, with Zora Howard, Joshua Boone and Michelle Wilson.
2020 - China reported another 118 deaths from the COVID-19 virus, raising the toll to 2,236, most of them in Hubei. This, while an Israeli doctor said one of the 11 Israelis who were flown home after being quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan had tested positive for the new virus, the first case to be reported inside the country. And Italian authorities reported a cluster of 16 coronavirus cases had been detected around Codogno, a small town in Lombardy. By the next day the number was up to 60 and five elderly people had died.
2020 - South Korea banned major rallies in its capital and declared a health emergency in its fourth largest city as 100 new COVID-19 cases were reported, bringing that country’s total to 204. In the capital, Seoul, officials banned major downtown rallies and shut down a big park to avoid mass public gatherings where the virus could spread. Workers in protective gear also sprayed disinfectant in the city’s subway.
2021 - Major arms makers descended on a convention center in Abu Dhabi, hoping to make deals with militaries across the Middle East. The UAE unveiled $1.36 billion in local and foreign arms deals to supply its forces.
2021 - COVID-19 news: 1)The lockdown and stay-at-home order was extended in Toronto, Canada. 2)Denmark closed some border crossing points with Germany and stepped up checks at others due to a spike and a rise in virus variants in the northern German town of Flensburg.
2022 - After some two years of pandemic-related closings, Australia fully reopened its international borders to travelers vaccinated against the coronavirus. This, as tourists returned and hundreds of people were reunited with family and friends.
2022 - The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet announced, with allied nations, the launch of a new joint fleet of unmanned drones to patrol the region’s volatile waters.
2023 - Russian despot Vladimir Putin said he was stopping participation in New START — the only remaining major nuclear arms control treaty with the U.S. “To resume treaty activities, the United States would need to cut off support for Ukraine and bring France and the United Kingdom into arms control talks,” Putin insisted.
2023 - At least six people were killed as two powerful earthquakes shook the southern province of Hatay, Turkey. The magnitude 6.3 and 5.8 quakes were felt across Turkey’s border region and into northern Syria, sparking panic among survivors of the more massive quakes earlier in the month. Those quakes killed more than 47,000 people in both countries. Istanbul’s mayor warned that about 90,000 buildings were at risk of collapse if a massive earthquake were to strike Turkey’s largest city.
and more...
Birthdays on This Day February 21
1855 - Alice (Elvira Freeman) Palmer
educator, administrator: president of Wellesley College [1882], member of Massachusetts Board of Education [1889], first dean of women: University of Chicago [1892], helped organize American Association of University Women; died Dec 6, 19021893 - Andrés Segovia
musician: guitar: Cello Suite in G major BWV 1007: Prelude, Partita No.3 in E BWV 1006: Gavotte and Rondo, Prelude in C minor for Lute BWV 999, Gigue, Suite Espanola - No.1: Granada, Fandanguillo, Nocturno, Petite Valse; died Jun 3, 19871907 - W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: The Age of Anxiety [1948]; Poems, The Orators, an English Study, The Dog Beneath the Skin, Look, Stranger!, The Double Man, Nones, Enchafed Flood, Forewords and Afterwords, Thanksgiving for a Habitat; Bollingen Poetry Prize [1954]; National Medal for Literature [1967]; died Sep 28, 19731915 - Ann (Clara Lou) Sheridan
actress: Appointment in Honduras, The Man Who Came to Dinner; died Jan 21, 19671924 - Robert Mugabe
President of Zimbabwe [1987–2017]; died Sep 6, 20191925 - Sam Peckinpah
director: Broken Arrow [TV: 1956], Zane Grey Theater, The Rifleman, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, The Getaway [1972], Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Convoy; died Dec 28, 19841925 - (Dr.) Jack (John T.) Ramsay
National Basketball Association Hall of Fame coach: Philadelphia 76ers, Buffalo Braves, Portland Trail Blazers [1977 NBA Title], Indiana Pacers; NBA broadcast analyst: ESPN; died Apr 28, 20141927 - Erma Bombeck (Fiste)
humorist, columnist, writer: The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank; died Apr 22, 19961927 - Hubert de Givenchy
fashion designer: furnished Hollywood/society stars [beginning in 1953]: Audrey Hepburn wore his fashions in Sabrina, Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Jackie and family dressed in Givenchy clothes at JFK funerall; died Mar 10, 20181933 - Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon)
singer: I Loves You Porgy, Trouble in Mind; song writer: To be Young Gifted and Black; died Apr 21, 20031934 - Rue McClanahan
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Golden Girls [1986-1987], Maude, Mama’s Family; died Jun 3, 20101936 - Barbara Jordan
lawyer, educator, U.S. Congresswoman; died Jan 17, 19961937 - Ron Clarke
Australian distance runner: 17 world records from 2 miles to 20,000 meters [1963-1970]; died Jun 17, 20151937 - Gary Lockwood (Yusolfsky)
actor: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Terror in Paradise, Firecreek, Splendor in the Grass1938 - Ernie McMillan
football: Univ. of Illinois, Green Bay Packers1940 - Peter Gethin
auto racer: first English driver to win Tasman series; died Dec 5, 20111940 - John Lewis
politician, statesman, civil rights activist: member of U.S. House of Representatives [for Georgia’s 5th congressional district] 1987-2020; one of the ‘Big Six’ leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington; led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 -- incident became known as Bloody Sunday when state troopers and police attacked the marchers, including Lewis; died Jul 17, 20201940 - Peter McEnery
actor: I Killed Rasputin, Negatives, Victim, Pictures1943 - Jack (John Eugene) Billingham
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1972, 1975, 1976/all-star: 1973], Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox1943 - David Geffen
Tony Award-winning producer: Cats [1983], M Butterfly [1988]; Miss Saigon, Beetlejuice, Risky Business; record executive: Geffen Records; partner in Dreamworks film production company with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg1945 - Danny Grant
hockey NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars [NHL’s Calder Trophy: 1969], Detroit Red Wings, LA Kings1946 - Tricia Nixon (Cox)
first daughter: daughter of 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon1946 - Tyne (Ellen) Daly
Tony Award: Gypsy [1990] and Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney and Lacey [1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1987-88]; Christy, On the Town, Your Place or Mine, A Matter of Life and Death, Speedtrap, Intimate Strangers, The Enforcer, Larry, Angel Unchained, The Butter and Egg Man, John and Mary, The Virginian, Judging Amy, Burn Notice; daughter of actors James Daly and Hope Newell; sister of actor Tim Daly1946 - Alan Rickman
actor: Love Actually, Harry Potter series, Something the Lord Made, The Winter Guest, The Search for John Gissing, Die Hard; died Jan 14, 20161949 - Jerry Harrison
musician: keyboards: group: Talking Heads: Love Goes to Building on Fire, Psycho Killer, Take Me to the River, I Zimbra, Life During Wartime; solo LP: The Red and the Black1951 - Vince Welnick
musician: keyboards: groups: The Tubes, The Grateful Dead; died June 2, 20061951 - Bill Olds
football: Univ of Nebraska; NFL: Baltimore Colts [1973-1975];Seattle Seahawks [1976]; Philadelphia Eagles [1976]1952 - Jean-Jacques Burnel
musician: bass, singer: group: The Stranglers: Grip, Peaches, No More Heroes, Golden Brown, Skin Deep, Nice in Nice; solo LP: Euroman Cometh1953 - Ken Huff
football: Washington Redskins guard: Super Bowl XVIII1953 - William L. Petersen
actor: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Haven, The Contender, The Skulls, The Rat Pack, 12 Angry Men, Mulholland Falls, Present Tense, Past Perfect, Return to Lonesome Dove, To Live and Die in L.A.1953 - Jim Pietrzak
football: Univ. of Michigan, NY Giants1955 - Kelsey Grammer
Emmy Award-winning actor: Frasier [1994, 1995]; Cheers, Another World, Back to You1956 - Lester Hunt
musician: guitar, keyboards, singer: group: Climax Blues Band: Couldn’t Get It Right, Don’t Start Me Talking, A Stranger in Your Town, Flight, Please Don’t Help Me, Hey Mama, Shake Your Love, I Love You1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: Stones in the Road [1994], Shut Up and Kiss Me [1994], Passionate Kisses [1993], I Feel Lucky [1992], Down at the Twist and Shout [1991]; He Thinks He’ll Keep Her, LP: Hometown Girl; musician: guitar, songwriter: Girls with Guitars, co-wrote: Sally’s Pigeon; daughter of Life magazine executive Chapin Carpenter1958 - Kim Coates
actor: Sons of Anarchy, CSI: Miami, Prison Break, Last Man Standing, The Last Boy Scout, Battlefield Earth, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, Assault on Precinct 13, Alien Agent, Resident Evil: Afterlife, A Dark Truth; Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth1958 - Jack Coleman
actor: Heroes, Without a Trace, CSI: Miami, Nip/Tuck, Kingdom Hospital, Studio City, The Landlady, Spawn, Foreign Student, The Return of Eliot Ness1958 - Alan Trammell
baseball [shortstop]: Detroit Tigers [1977-1996]1961 - Christopher Atkins
actor: Dallas, The Blue Lagoon1963 - William Baldwin
actor: The Preppie Murder, Backdraft, Bulworth, Virus: Ghost in the Machine, Primary Suspect, Dirty Sexy Money, Hawaii Five-0 [2011-2012]; brother of actors Alec, Daniel and Stephen Baldwin1968 - Patrick Gallagher
actor: Da Vinci’s Inquest, Entourage, The Line, Glee, The Fallen Faithful, The Quality of Life, The Taste of Tea, Severed, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Revelation1969 - Aunjanue Ellis
actress: Men of Honor, The Help, Ray, Undercover Brother, MDs, Jonny Zero, I Love You Phillip Morris, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Mentalist1971 - Sara Blakely
businesswoman: founded Spanx multi-million dollar undergarment company: world’s youngest self-made female billionaire1975 - Lional Dalton
football [defensive tackle]: Eastern Michigan Univ; NFL: Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Houston Texans1978 - Kumail Nanjiani
comedian, actor: Silicon Valley, Franklin & Bash, Portlandia, The Big Sick, The Eternals1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt
actress: Party of Five, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, The Byrds of Paradise, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Ghost Whisperer1979 - Jordan Peele
comedian, actor: Key & Peele, Fargo [TV], The Last O.G., The Twilight Zone [CBS All Access], Keanu, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Toy Story 4; director: Get Out; producer: Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman1983 - Mélanie Laurent
actress: Inglourious Basterds, Night Train to Lisbon, Now You See Me, Letter from an Unknown Woman1983 - Eoin Macken
actor: Centurion, Siren, Fair City, The Callback Queen, Studs, Merlin, The Night Shift1986 - Charlotte Church
singer: LPs: Voice of an Angel, Charlotte Church, Dream a Dream, Enchantment1987 - Ashley Greene
actress: Twilight film series, The Appartition, Summer’s Blood, King of California, Desire, Pan Am1987 - Elliot Page
actress: Juno, Whip It!, Smart People, X-Men: The Last Stand, Hard Candy, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, Pit Pony, Tales of the City, The Umbrella Academy1989 - Corbin Bleu
songwriter, singer, actor: High School Musical series, Flight 29 Down, Jump In!, Catch That Kid, Scary or Die1994 - Hayley Orrantia
actress: The Goldbergs, Cooper and the Castle Hills Gang, God’s Not Dead 21995 - Giveon (Giveon Dezmann Evans)
singer: Chicago Freestyle, Heartbreak Anniversary, Stuck on You, For Tonight, Lost Me, Peaches [Justin Bieber hit]1996 - Sophie Turner
actress: Game of Thrones, Barely Lethal, The Thirteenth Tale, Another Me, Mary Shelley’s Monster
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day February 21
1946Let It Snow (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
Symphony (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
1955
1964
1973
1982
1991
2000
2009
2018
and even more...
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
TWtD Calendar
