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TODAY - Dec 21, 2025

Thought of the Day

If you win you need not have to explain and if you lose you should not be there to explain.

Today's Birthday

Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli Statesman, British(1804)

A British Conservative statesman and literary figure served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister.

 
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell Novelist, English(1905)

An English novelist best known for his novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.

 
Heinrich Boll
Heinrich Boll Novelist, German(1917)

A German Nobel Prize winning novelist for Literature in 1972.

 
Chris Evert
Chris Evert Tennis Player, American(1954)

An American former professional tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles championships and three doubles titles.

 
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa Composer , American(1940)

An American composer arranger, guitarist, bandleader and rock musician, who was recognized as one of rock music's most notable guitarists.

This day in History

1913

The New York World newspaper prints the first modern crossword puzzle in the United States.

1937

The animated motion picture "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" premieres.

1956

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

1968

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 8, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with astronauts James Lovell Jr., Frank Borman and William Anders aboard.

1988

Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 244 passengers, 15 crew members and 11 residents of Lockerbie. Evidence later linked the bombing to the Libyan government.

Frank Zappa (1940-1993)

Frank Zappa

An American composer arranger, guitarist, bandleader and rock musician, who was recognized as one of rock music's most notable guitarists, born on December 21, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. During his career Zappa released more than 60 albums. Playing in school orchestras, he taught himself a variety of instruments, concentrating on guitar. As a drummer, he joined a band when he was 14 years old. At the age of 18, he began playing the guitar. He moved to Los Angeles in 1959 and started writing music and playing in bands. He earned fame for his unconventional music lifestyles, and music in 1965. A band The Mothers, which later renamed The Mothers of Invention, was formed by him. His debut record “Freak Out. Imaginative and original”, was released in 1966. He earned fame and became a celebrity. He released five more albums during the next three years. We're Only in It for the Money and Uncle Meat were his other released. Zappa was remembered for his distinctive persona that of a social critic, a humorist, a serious composer. Zappa was posthumously elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal