Today is Tuesday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2006. There are 313 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2006. There are 313 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, is shot to death in New York by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
In 1885, the Washington Monument is dedicated. In 1916, the World War I Battle of Verdun begins in France. In 1925, The New Yorker magazine makes its debut. In 1947, Edwin H. Land publicly demonstrates his Polaroid Land camera, which can produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds. In 1972, President Nixon begins his historic visit to China as he and his wife, Pat, arrive in Shanghai. In 1973, Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert, killing more than 100 people. In 1975, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman are sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.
February 21, 1981: Youngstown public school teachers will vote on Sunday afternoon whether to obey a back-to-work order issued by Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne.
Bernadette Budde, political action director for the Business-Industrial Political Action Committee, tells a Warren Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon that her group will be targeting a number of members of Congress for defeat, including U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio.
George D. Beelen, chairman of the Youngstown State University history Department, and Robert F. Popp, city hall reporter for the East Liverpool Evening Review, are awarded George Washington Honor medals by the Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, Pa.
February 21, 1966: Some 5,000 volunteers brave the cold to canvass residents on "Heart Sunday" in the tri-county area, raising $30,964, Dr. William H. Bunn Jr., president of the Heart Association of Eastern Ohio, announces.
Chester W. Nimitz, who commanded 1,000 ships and two million men in battles leading up to the surrender of Japan, dies at 80 in San Francisco.
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February 21, 1956: Paul C. Weick, a Youngstown native who became one of Akron's most prominent attorneys, is recommended by Ohio's senators to President Eisenhower to be Ohio's next U.S. District judge.
An Army officer recommends that temporary Nike guided missile bases be established in Northeast Ohio at the Ravenna arsenal and the Lordstown Ordnance Depot.
A $16 million shopping center with moving sidewalks is to be built at Twinsburg, which is developing into a new industrial area. Summit Shopping Town will have 75 stores.
February 21, 1931: Irene Shrader and Glenn Dague, convicted of slaying Cpl. Brady Paul, leave the county jail in New Castle for a trip by car to Rockview prison near Bellefonte, Pa., where they will be executed.
Members of the Indianola M.E. Church present a three-act comedy, "Poor Father," featuring H.O. Stackhouse, Mary McIntire, Glenn McFarland, Cameron Trott, Mrs. Ralph Gleicauff, Mrs. Ralph Leonard, Mrs. Charles McCoy, Leonard Granger, Fred Shank, Henry Jones, E.S. Smith and Mrs. Glenn McFafla.