On this day: February 21
POSTED: 09:46 PM PST Feb 20, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 20, 2013
The Washington Monument is dedicated, Alka-Seltzer is sold for the first time, the peace symbol is born, Malcolm X is assassinated, and Nixon heads to China, all on this day.
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1955: Actor Kelsey Grammer, best known for his two-decade run playing psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane first on the sitcom "Cheers" and then on the spinoff "Frasier," is born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He has won five Emmy Awards, and has also worked as a television producer, director, writer, and voice artist.
