February 21: Language Movement Day in Bangladesh
- 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, was granted resignation by Pope Innocent IV after having confessed to torture and forgery.
- 1828 – The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
- 1921 – The Constituent Assembly of Georgia adopted the nation's first constitution, shortly before being overthrown by the Soviet Union.
- 1947 – Edwin H. Land demonstrated the use of the first instant camera (pictured) to the Optical Society of America.
- 1952 – Protesters in Dhaka, East Pakistan, walked into military crossfire demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language.
Nina Simone (b. 1933) · Baruch Spinoza (d. 1677)
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