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TODAY - Mar 21, 2025

Thought of the Day

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Today's Birthday

Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier Mathematician, French(1768)

A French physicist and mathematician who is well known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series.

 
Benito Juarez
Benito Juarez Politician, Mexican(1806)

Mexican Politician and the president of Mexico (1806)

 
Peter Brook
Peter Brook Director, English(1925)

An English theatre and film director who won multiple Emmy and Tony Awards, the Prix Italia and the Praemium Imperiale.

 
Rani Mukherji
Rani Mukherji Actress, Indian(1978)

An Indian actress. Through her Bollywood career, she has become one of the most high-profile celebrities in India, winning several awards, including seven Filmfare Awards. Modest Mussorgsky, composer (1839)

 
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach Musician, German(1685)

During his life Bach worked at a number of German courts, as organist or music director, and spent his last 27 years in Leipzig teaching and composing.

This day in History

1804

The French Civil Code, later renamed the Code Napoleon, is promulgated, providing a uniform civil law.

1918

The Second Battle of the Somme, the last major German offensives of World War I, is launched.

1960

South African police open fire on a group of black protesters in the township of Sharpeville.

1963

Alcatraz, a federal prison for dangerous criminals in the San Francisco Bay, closes.

1965

Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a protest march that begins in Selma, Ala.; it arrives in Montgomery five days later.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Johann Sebastian Bach

German musical geniuses was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, a small city in the German region of Thuringen. During his life Bach worked at a number of German courts, as organist or music director, and spent his last 27 years in Leipzig teaching and composing. Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was town music director and court trumpeter in Eisenach, and his father's cousin, Johann Christoph, served as court organist. In all likelihood the young Bach received instruction in string playing from his father and sang in the choir of Saint George's, the court church, under Johann Christoph Bach. At age seven he entered the Latin School, which German theologian Martin Luther had attended two centuries earlier. There Bach made good progress in his studies. Except the opera, he composed in every form known in the baroque era. A man of inexhaustible energy and imagination, was died on July 28, 1750, Leipzig, Germany.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal