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"Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" is one of
the pictures that inspired sections of
Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685; died July 28, 1750) German composer;
The Brandenburg Concertos;
The Goldberg Variations;
St. Matthew Passion;
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Joseph Fourier (1768; died May 16, 1830) French mathematician and physicist;
Théorie analytique de la chaleur (
The Analytic Theory of Heat)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839; died March 28, 1881) Russian composer;
Boris Godunov;
Night on Bald Mountain;
Pictures at an Exhibition
Died on this day:
Benedict of Nursia (543 or 547; born 480) Italian saint and religious founder;
The Rule of St. Benedict
Thomas Cranmer (1556; born July 2, 1489) English reformer and Archbishop (of Canterbury);
The Book of Common Prayer
Chinua Achebe (2013; born November 16, 1930) Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic; The "African Trilogy", (
Things Fall Apart;
No Longer at Ease;
Arrow of God);
A Man of the People;
Anthills of the Savannah
Bonus Classic:
Su Song (1020-1101) Chinese scientist;
Xinyi Xiangfayao (
Essentials of a New Method for Mechanizing the Rotation of an Armillary Sphere and a Celestial Globe)
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