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TODAY - Feb 21, 2025

Thought of the Day

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Today's Birthday

Carl Czerny
Carl Czerny Composer, Austrian(1791)

An Austrian composer, teacher, whose the piano studies books are still widely used in piano teaching.

 
Santa Anna
Santa Anna Politician, Mexican(1794)

A Mexican politician who freed his people from Spanish rule was known as "the Napoleon of the West"

 
August Von Wassermann
August Von Wassermann Bacteriologist, German(1866)

A German bacteriologist and hygienist who invented a test for detecting syphilis.

 
Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe President, Zimbabwe(1924)

The President of Zimbabwe and the leader of the rebel groups against white minority rule

 
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan Educator, American(1936)

She worked for the campaign in 1960 to nominate John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate of Democratic Party.

This day in History

1795

The National Convention formally separates church and state in France, allowing public worship in private homes.

1858

The first electric burglar alarm is installed by Edwin Holmes of Boston.

1885

The Washington Monument, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated.

1965

The American Black activist and leader Malcolm X is fatally shot while addressing a meeting at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York.

One of the history's remarkable woman

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)

Barbara Jordan

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