On this day …
February 21, 2016
- In 1842, John Greenough was granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
- In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto.
- In 1874, the Oakland Daily Tribune in California published its first edition.
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The peace symbol is a combination of the letters ‘N’ and ‘D’ of the flag semaphore alphabet, standing for “nuclear disarmament.” - In 1878, the first telephone directory was issued in New Haven, Conn.
- In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated.
- In 1925, The New Yorker magazine published its first issue.
- In 1947, Edwin Land demonstrated the first instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera, in New York City.
- In 1958, the peace symbol, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, was designed by Gerald Holtom.
- In 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
- In 1975, former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison for their roles in the Watergate scandal.
