February 21, 1828 - The Cherokee Nation in New Echota, Georgia, is able to print a Cherokee-language newspaper when it receives a printing press. The newspaper used the newly invented Cherokee alphabet.

February 21, 1842 - John Greenough receives a patent for the sewing machine.

February 21, 1848 - John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. president and congressman from Massachusetts, suffers a stroke on the floor of the House of Representatives during a speech criticizing the Mexican-American War.
 

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February 21, 1885 - In Washington, D.C., the Washington Monument is dedicated. The monument, 555 feet high, was built in honor or American's first president.

February 21, 1925 - The magazine The New Yorker debuts.

February 21, 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a speech in New York City. He was an African-American nationalist and religious leader, killed by rival Black Muslims.

February 21, 1970 - Henry Kissinger, American national security advisor during the Vietnam War, begins secret peace talks with the North Vietnamese.
 

"In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might." - Sir Winston Churchill