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Today in History: February 21

1775 As troubles with Great Britain increase, colonists in Massachusetts vote to buy military equipment for 15,000 men.

1862 The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico.

1878 The world's first telephone book is issued by the New Haven Connecticut Telephone Company containing the names of its 50 subscribers.

1916 The Battle of Verdun begins with an unprecedented German artillery barrage of the French lines.

1940 The Germans begin construction of a concentration camp at Auschwitz.

1951 The U. S. Eighth Army launches Operation Killer, a counterattack to push Chinese forces north of the Han River in Korea.

1956 A grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicts 115 in a Negro bus boycott.

1965 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) is assassinated in front of 400 people.

1972 Richard Nixon arrives in Beijing, China, becoming the first U.S. president to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S.

1974 A report claims that the use of defoliants by the U.S. has scarred Vietnam for a century.


Born on February 21

1794 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican Revolutionary.

1927 Erma Bombeck, author and humorist (The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank).


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