Date February 21is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 313 days remain until the end of the year (314 in leap years). This was the only episode transmitted on Wednesday 21st February 2018 as the BRIT Awards were broadcast on ITV1 at 8.00pm. An extra slot was created for the displaced episode on Thursday 22nd February. The nurse attending to Aidan Connor was uncredited, despite having a line of dialogue.

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Washington D.C., Feb. 21, 2018 —

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to approve a statement and interpretive guidance to assist public companies in preparing disclosures about cybersecurity risks and incidents.

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“I believe that providing the Commission’s views on these matters will promote clearer and more robust disclosure by companies about cybersecurity risks and incidents, resulting in more complete information being available to investors,” said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton. “In particular, I urge public companies to examine their controls and procedures, with not only their securities law disclosure obligations in mind, but also reputational considerations around sales of securities by executives.”

The guidance provides the Commission’s views about public companies’ disclosure obligations under existing law with respect to matters involving cybersecurity risk and incidents. It also addresses the importance of cybersecurity policies and procedures and the application of disclosure controls and procedures, insider trading prohibitions, and Regulation FD and selective disclosure prohibitions in the cybersecurity context.

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On February 21, the citizens of Bhutan celebrate the public holiday that honors King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the fifth and current Druk Gyalpo (“Dragon King”) of Bhutan. It commemorates his birth anniversary.

February 21 is a public holiday in the People's Republic of Bangladesh, known as Language Movement Day, Language Martyrs' Day, or Language Revolution Day. It coincides with International Mother Language Day as both holidays commemorate the same event.

On February 21, Vanuatu celebrates Father Walter Lini Day. This public holiday is dedicated to the founding Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu.

Robert Mugabe National Youth Day is a public holiday in Zimbabwe celebrated on February 21. It commemorates the birthday of the country’s first president, Robert Mugabe.

International Tourist Guide Day is a professional holiday celebrated each year on February 21. This observance was established by the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA) and has been held since 1990.

Armed Forces Day in South Africa is celebrated on February 21. The holiday commemorates the creation of the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) in 1994.

Birthday of King Harald V of Norway is an official flag flying day in the country. On the occasion, the state flag of Norway must be flown by all branches of government and state agencies.

It's National Sticky Bun Day, that is celebrated annually on February 21. Today you can enjoy your favorite sticky buns for breakfast.

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International Mother Language Day is a UNESCO observance that has been annually held on February 21 since 2000. It is aimed at promoting linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.

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• Brit Awards in London, United Kingdom
• Gdakon in Gdansk, Poland
• Bahrain International Garden Show in Manama, Bahrain
• Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair in Bangkok, Thailand
• WineWin in Chisinau, Moldova
• Great British Beer Festival Winter (ex. National Winter Ales Festival) in Norwich, United Kingdom
• Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal
• Carnival of Basel in Basel, Switzerland
• Chorus Inside International in Chieti, Italy
• Menton Lemon Festival in Menton, France
• Nice Carnival in Nice, France
• Festival du Voyageur in Winnipeg, Canada
• Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Canada
• Adelaide Fringe in Adelaide, Australia
• Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in Berlin, Germany

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• 2008Died: Sunny Lowry, English swimmer, best known as the first woman to swim the English Channel.
• 2005Died: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, best known for the novel Tres Tristers Tigers (published in English as Three Tapped Tigers), which was compared favorable to Ulysses by James Joyce.
• 2002Died: John Thaw, English actor, most popular for the titular role of Inspector Morse. Among other Thaw's notable roles are Sergeant John Mann in Redcap and Detective Inspector Jack Regan in The Sweeney.
• 1999Died: Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Elion became the developer of multitude new drugs and used innovative research methods, that would lead to the development of the AIDS drug AZT.
• 1995Steve Fossett successfully landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada and became the first person who made a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
• 1991Died: Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina, one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. She was appointed as Prima Ballerina Assoluta, a title award to the most notable female ballet dancers.
• 1987Born: Ashley Greene, American model and actress. Greene is best known for her role as Alice Cullen in The Twilight Saga movies.
• 1987Born: Elliot Page, Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Juno, Whip It, Super, Inception, Tallulah, and the X-Men films, as well as for portraying Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.
• 1979Born: Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress, singer, producer, best known for her roles in Garfield: the Movie, If Only, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
• 1973Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet was shot down by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert. 108 people were killed.
• 1972Luna 20, the Soviet unmanned spaceship, landed on the Moon.
• 1967Died: Charles Beaumont, American author, best known as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes.
• 1963Born: William Baldwin, American actor, producer and screenwriter, best known for roles in films Flatliners, Backdraft, Silver, Fair Game, Virus, Double Bang, Art Heist.
• 1962Born: Chuck Palahniuk, American journalist and author, best known for his novel Fight Club, that was made into a feature film
• 1958The peace symbol was designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. The symbol was commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
• 1952Identity cards were abolished by the British government under Winston Churchill to 'set the people free'.
• 1947The first instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera, was demonstrated by Edwin Land at the meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City.
• 1946Born: Alan Rickman, English actor, best known for his role as Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series.
• 1943Born: David Geffen, American film and record producer, co-founder of DreamWorks and Geffen Records.
• 1941Died: Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Banting became the first doctor to use insulin for treating diabetes on humans.
• 1927Born: Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer, founder of Givenchy, a luxury French brand of haute couture clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics (as Parfums Givenchy).
• 1926Died: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate for investigations of cooled to nearly absolute zero materials behavior and production of liquid helium.
• 1918The last Carolina Parakeet, a small native to the eastern, midwest and plains states of the USA parrot with a bright yellow head, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
• 1901Died: George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician, whose work on electromagnetic theory and the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction became an integral part of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
• 1895Born: Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate for discovery of vitamin K and description of its role in human physiology.
• 1848The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
• 1808Russian troops crossed the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland. There was no previous declaration of war, but this action marked the beginning of the Finnish war.
• 1804The first self-propelling steam locomotive made its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
• 1677Died: Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, who laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and biblical criticism, included modern conceptions of the self and the universe. Today Spinoza is considered as one of the great rationalists of the 17th-century philosophy.
• 1621Born: Rebecca Nurse, English-American victim of the Salem witch trials. She and her two sisters were hanged during the hysteria over witchcraft in the Massachusetts colony. Nurse has became a central character in many plays and other dramatic treatments of the witch trials.