If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
An Austrian composer, teacher, whose the piano studies books are still widely used in piano teaching.
A Mexican politician who freed his people from Spanish rule was known as "the Napoleon of the West"
A German bacteriologist and hygienist who invented a test for detecting syphilis.
The President of Zimbabwe and the leader of the rebel groups against white minority rule
She worked for the campaign in 1960 to nominate John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate of Democratic Party.
The National Convention formally separates church and state in France, allowing public worship in private homes.
The first electric burglar alarm is installed by Edwin Holmes of Boston.
The Washington Monument, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated.
The American Black activist and leader Malcolm X is fatally shot while addressing a meeting at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York.
An American educator and politician who was born on February 21, 1936, in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1959, she earned a law degree from the University of Boston. She worked for the campaign in 1960 to nominate John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate of Democratic Party. Jordan became the first black woman to win a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966 and she was the member of the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1978. She earned national attention, when she took a seat on the Judiciary Committee and delivered her speech in favour of impeaching Richard M. Nixon the President of U.S. during the Watergate affair. Jordan left the House in 1978 and started teaching public policy at the Texas University. Jordan earned praise for her powerful speech against intolerance and racism among both blacks and whites.
Jordan died on January 17, 1996, in Texas, United States.
Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal