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| February 21st, 2007 | Event | Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. |
| February 21st, 2004 | Event | The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome. |
| February 21st, 1995 | Event | Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. |
| February 21st, 1975 | Event | Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. |
| February 21st, 1974 | Event | The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. |
| February 21st, 1973 | Event | Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108. |
| February 21st, 1972 | Event | President Richard Nixon visits the People s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. |
| February 21st, 1972 | Event | The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. |
| February 21st, 1971 | Event | The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. |
| February 21st, 1970 | Event | Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zurich, Switzerland. |
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