February 21 in history: • 1828 – The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published. → go there • 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college. → go there • 1919 – Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated. → go there • 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. → go there • 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. → go there Born 1860: Goscombe John Wiki link Born 1961: Rhonda Sing Wiki link Died 1986: Helen Hooven Santmyer Wiki link Died 1991: Margot Fonteyn Wiki link Pictured: Lucy Hobbs Taylor.