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                 February 21 
                        Robert Mugabe 

                        Robert Mugabe, born this day in 1924, was the first prime minister (1980–87) of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), its president from 1987, and a black nationalist of Marxist persuasion who established one-party rule. 

                       
                 
                 

                        Malcolm X assassinated 


                               
                        1965: Malcolm X, who articulated concepts of racial pride and black nationalism in the United States, was assassinated this day in 1965 and became an ideological hero after the posthumous release of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 
                       

                       
                       
                       1972: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon paid a state visit to the People's Republic of China, ending a 21-year estrangement between the communist country and the United States. 
                       
                       1925: The American weekly magazine The New Yorker began publication under Harold W. Ross. 
                       
                       1921: Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi) overthrew the Qajar dynasty in Iran. 
                       
                       1885: The Washington Monument was dedicated on the grounds of the Mall in Washington, D.C. 
                       
                       1876: Abstract sculptor Constantin Brancusi was born in Romania. 
                       
                       1836: French opera and ballet composer Léo Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val. 
                 
           
     

 

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