What Day of the Week

February 23, 2021 is the 54^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mardi.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1455

  Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
• 1660

  Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
• 1739

  Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
• 1903

  Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
• 1909

  The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
• 1945

  World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
• 1974

  The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
• 1981

  In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
• 1991

  In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
• 1999

  Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

• 1417

  Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
• 1729

  Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
• 1842

  Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
• 1889

  Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
• 1938

  Paul Morrissey, American film director
• 1947

  Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician
• 1949

  Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut
• 1953

  Kenny Bee,Hong Kong actor,musician and singer
• 1953

  Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
• 1971

  Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer

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