What happend on 21st February

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1974

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

1973

Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.

1972

The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.

1972

President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.

1971

The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

1970

Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.

1965

Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.

1960

Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.

1953

Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.

1952

Churchill government in the UK abolishes Identity Cards to "set the people free".