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This day in history: February 21

1. 1862

   American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

2. 1866

   Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

3. 1919

   Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

4. 1929

   Nanjing decade: In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

5. 1952

   A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

6. 1965

   American Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.

7. 1973

   After accidentally straying into the airspace of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Israeli fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

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