On this day — February 21

Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.

aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.

under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".

Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.