Daily Calendar for February 21st, 2019

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• International Mother Language Day

1740s

• Died 1741: Jethro Tull (agriculturist, inventor of the horse-drawn seed drill)

1860s

• 1866: Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first woman to graduate from a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati, Ohio

1870s

• 1878: First telephone book issued

1880s

• 1885: The Washington Monument was dedicated by President Arthur in Washington, D.C. It took 102 years to complete, beginning in 1783 when Congress proposed it. It was the largest man-made structure in the world at the time

1900s

• Born 1903: Anais Nin (novelist)

• Born 1907: W.H. Auden (poet)

1920s

• 1925: First issue of The New Yorker published

1940s

• Born 1940: John Robert Lewis (American politician; civil rights leader)

• Born 1946: Alan Rickman (actor)

• 1947: Polaroid instant camera first demonstrated

1950s

• Born 1953: William Petersen (actor)

• Born 1955: Kelsey Grammer (actor)

1960s

• Died 1965: Malcolm X assassinated in NYC

1970s

• 1972: President Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S. when he visited China

• Born 1979: Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress)

1980s

• Born 1989: Corbin Bleu (actor)

1990s

• Died 1991: Dame Margot Fonteyn (ballerina)

2000s

• Died 2004: President George W. Bush's dog, Spotty, died at the age of 15. She was born in 1989 in the White House. Her mother was Millie, the well-known dog of Bush's parents, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara. She is believed to be the only pet to live in the White House twice

• Died 2004: Bart Howard (songwriter known for writing Fly Me to the Moon)

2010s

• 2010: UFO sighted in Portland, Oregon

• Died 2018: Billy Graham (evangelist)

• Died 2019: Peter Tork (musician, member of The Monkees)