📜 This Day in History

February 21

• 1437King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
• 1828The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
• 1866Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.
• 1919Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.
• 1952A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.
• 1973After accidentally straying into the airspace of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Israeli fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

Born on this day

• 1907W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and composer (died 1973)
• 1924Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean educator and politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (died 2019)
• 1937Harald V of Norway, King of Norway (died 2026)
• 1989Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter