What happend on 21st February

20.02
22.02
2004

The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.

2003

Over 100 concert goers die in a fire during a performance of the rock band Great White.

2000

David Letterman returns to The Late Show over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.

1995

Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria; 4 guards and 96 prisoners killed in a day and a half.

1995

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

1988

Jimmy Swaggart, on his own televangelism program being taped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be temporarily leaving the pulpit.

1986

The Legend of Zelda was released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan.

1980

Charles Rocket utters the F bomb on Saturday night live.

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.

1974

The long-running Japanese comic strip Sazae-san publishes its final installment in the Asahi Shimbun.