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Events on Tuesday 21 February 1933 2
1933Battle of ReheJapan seizes the Chinese province of ReheJapanese and Manchukuo forces invaded Rehe in February and took the province within weeks, pushing on to the Great Wall. The fighting was ended by the Tanggu Truce.
1933 – 2003Nina Simone (1933-2003)Died 21 April 2003, aged 70Nina Simone was a singer, pianist and songwriter whose repertoire spanned jazz, blues, gospel, classical and folk. Songs such as 'Mississippi Goddam' and 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' made her a prominent voice of the civil rights movement. She spent her later years in France, where she died.