February 21st, 1789

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Born on February 21st, 1789 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 21st?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 21st
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1789)

Born on February 21st, 1789

Weekday

Saturday

February 21st, 1789 was a Saturday.

Age

235

People born on February 21st, 1789 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 235 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1789 - March 20th, 1789

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 85,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 111 days, exactly on August 8th, 2024, people who were born on February 21st, 1789 will be 86,000 days old!

85,889 Days

12,269 Weeks

2,821 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 21st?

February 21st, 1973

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

February 21st, 1952

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

February 21st, 1929

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

February 21st, 1919

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

February 21st, 1878

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

February 21st, 1866

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

February 21st, 1862

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

February 21st, 1828

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

February 21st, 1746

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

February 21st, 1437

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

February 21st, 2022

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

February 21st, 2013

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

February 21st, 1995

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

February 21st, 1994

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

February 21st, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 21st?

Corbin Bleu

American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter

*February 21st, 1989, Brooklyn

Joe Alwyn

English actor

*February 21st, 1991, Royal Tunbridge Wells

Sawan Serasinghe

Sri Lanka-born Australian badminton player

*February 21st, 1994, Galle

Lalinrat Chaiwan

Badminton player

*February 21st, 2001, Lampang

Carl Czerny

Austrian composer and pianist (1791-1857)

*February 21st, 1791, Vienna †July 15th, 1857, Vienna

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

Robert Mugabe

2nd president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

*February 21st, 1924, Kutama †September 6th, 2019, Gleneagles Hospital

Ernst Meyer

German historian of classical antiquity (1898-1975)

*February 21st, 1898, Pinneberg †November 18th, 1975, Zürich

Friedrich Karl Kaul

German screenwriter

*February 21st, 1906, Poznań †April 16th, 1981, East Berlin

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Hammersmith †January 14th, 2016, London

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

Francis Ronalds

British meteorologist

*February 21st, 1788, London †August 8th, 1873, Battle

Giveon

American R&B singer

*February 21st, 1995, Long Beach

Kazushi Yamada

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1987, Ehime Prefecture

Jelle Maas

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1991, Oosterhout

Sally Kessler

*February 21st, 1912, Cologne †March 27th, 1985, Cologne

Hana Ramadhini

Indonesian badminton player

*February 21st, 1995, Tasikmalaya City

Tey Seu Bock

Malaysian badminton coach

*February 21st, 1973, Alor Gajah

John Moody

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1983, Whangārei

Eduard Oscar Schmidt

German zoologist (1823–1886)

*February 21st, 1823, Torgau †January 17th, 1886, Kappelrodeck

Same year
Born in 1789

Georg Simon Ohm

German physicist and mathematician

*March 16th, 1789, Erlangen †July 6th, 1854, Munich

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer (1789-1851)

*September 15th, 1789, Burlington †September 14th, 1851, Cooperstown

Francisco Javier Mina

Spanish general and lawyer

*July 1st, 1789, Otao †November 11th, 1817, Pénjamo

Silvio Pellico

Italian writer and poet

*June 24th, 1789, Saluzzo †January 31st, 1854, Turin

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician (1789–1857)

*August 21st, 1789, Paris †May 23rd, 1857, Sceaux

John Martin

Painter, engraver and illustrator (1789-1854)

*July 19th, 1789, Haydon Bridge †February 17th, 1854, Douglas

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement (1789-1869)

*July 3rd, 1789, Lübeck †November 12th, 1869, Rome

Carl Adam Bader

German cathedral organist and operatic tenor

*January 10th, 1789, Bamberg †April 14th, 1870, Berlin

Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg

Member of the House of Arenberg

*April 10th, 1789, City of Brussels †April 4th, 1823, Bamberg

József Hild

Hungarian architect (1789-1867)

*December 8th, 1789, Pest †March 6th, 1867, Pest

William Carr Lane

American mayor (1789-1863)

*December 1st, 1789, Fayette County †January 6th, 1863, St. Louis

Leona Vicario

Mexican spy

*April 10th, 1789, Mexico City †August 21st, 1842, Mexico City

Heinrich Schwabe

German astronomer (1789-1875)

*October 25th, 1789, Dessau †April 11th, 1875, Dessau

Johannes Jacob Hegetschweiler

Swiss botanist (1789-1839)

*December 14th, 1789, Rifferswil †September 9th, 1839, Zürich

Jared Sparks

American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister

*May 10th, 1789, Willington †March 14th, 1866, Cambridge

William John Swainson

English naturalist and artist

*October 8th, 1789, London †December 6th, 1855, Hutt Valley

Manuel de Mier y Terán

Mexican General (1789-1832)

*February 18th, 1789, Mexico City †July 3rd, 1832, Padilla Municipality

Wilhelm Hey

German writer (1789-1854)

*March 26th, 1789, Leinatal †May 19th, 1854, Ichtershausen

Carlos Soublette

Venezuelan politician and statesman

*December 15th, 1789, Caracas †February 11th, 1870, Caracas

Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

*August 27th, 1789, Hildburghausen †November 25th, 1868, Altenburg

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 21st.

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Bhutan

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagum

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXI.II.MDCCLXXXIX

21.2.1789

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1789 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1789

February 1789

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
5							1
6	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
7	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
8	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
9	23	24	25	26	27	28

February 21st, 1789

Born on February 21st, 1789

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 85,000 days old!

85,889 Days

12,269 Weeks

2,821 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 21st?

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

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.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

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Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Armed Forces Day (South Africa)

Birthday of King Harald V (Norway)

Felix of Hadrumetum

Pepin of Landen

Peter Damian

Randoald of Grandval

February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Father Lini Day (Vanuatu)

Language Movement Day (Bangladesh)

International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

21.2.1789

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