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• ...that systematic recycling of broken glass was a common practice in the Roman glass industry (example pictured) ?
• ...that Hurricane Darby's remnants caused the Space Shuttle Columbia's landing at the end of STS-50 to be postponed for a day?
• ...that African-American Lemuel A. Penn, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist, was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient?
• ...that the President of Latvia said the result of the 2003 Latvian European Union membership referendum wiped out the divisions of Europe created by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939?
• ...the geneivat da'at principle in Jewish law has been used to forbid false advertising, insider trading, cheating on the Regents exams, and the failure to cite secondary sources?
• ...that Labworth Café, built in 1932, is the only example of the architectural design of Ove Arup and was made a Listed building in 1996?
• ...that the wreck of the scallop dredger Solway Harvester was discovered by the Royal Navy's minehunter HMS Sandown?
  

• American spy satellite USA 193 is destroyed by a missile launched by the U.S. Navy.
• A total lunar eclipse (pictured), visible from the Americas, Europe, and Africa, occurs.
• Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan is elected President of Armenia.
• The Pakistan Peoples Party wins a plurality in the Pakistani general election following a state of emergency and pre-election violence, and forms a coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League (N).
• Toshiba announces it is ceasing production of HD DVD equipment, conceding the high definition format war to the rival Blu-ray Disc format.
• Fidel Castro announces his retirement as the President of Cuba.
• Kosovo's parliament endorses a unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia; response from the international community is mixed.

February 21: Daeboreum in Korea and Lantern Festival in the Chinese lunar calendar (2008); Language Movement Day in Bangladesh, International Mother Language Day.

• 1613 – Mikhail I was elected unanimously by the Zemsky Sobor to become Tsar, beginning the Romanov dynasty in Imperial Russia.
• 1804 – Built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick, the first self-propelled steam engine or locomotive (replica pictured) first ran in Wales.
• 1848 – The Communist Manifesto by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was first published, becoming one of the world's most influential political tracts.
• 1958 – British artist Gerald Holtom designed a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that became more commonly known as the peace symbol.
• 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances, a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs, was signed at a conference of plenipotentiaries in Vienna.

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