February 21: What Happened on This Day in History (Elementary Level)?

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1. 1804 - The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales
2. 1828 - Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
3. 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
4. 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
5. 1947 - In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
6. Famous Birthdays: Sethus Calvisius (German astronomer, composer, and theorist), John McKinly (American physician), Henrik Dam (Danish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Hans Erni (Swiss painter and sculptor), Emil Frei (American physician and oncologist)

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