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Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert. Among his early works were a ballet, a symphony, a cello concerto and a one-act comic opera, Cox and Box , which is still widely performed. He wrote his first opera with Gilbert, Thespis , in 1871. The impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1875 engaged Sullivan to write the music for a one-act piece, Trial by Jury , with a libretto by Gilbert. Its box-office success led the partners to create 12 full-length comic operas, including H.M.S. Pinafore , The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado . Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe , though initially successful in 1891, has rarely been revived. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, 10 choral works and oratorios, 2 ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord". ( Full article... )

Frontispiece to a forty-hadith manuscript

• ... that works in the forty-hadith genre (example pictured) were produced based on a hadith promising special treatment on Judgement Day?
• ... that the Awlad al-Imam were venerated for their knowledge and legacy, but none of their works have survived?
• ... that the Canal of Zubaidah , built on the order of a queen, provided water to Hajj pilgrims for over a thousand years?
• ... that American academic Intisar A. Rabb was inspired by a Supreme Court blog to launch an online portal containing Sharia texts?
• ... that one scholar read the film Para Perintis Kemerdekaan as offering a "revolutionary Islam" that seeks to emancipate women?
• ... that " Japan's most renowned Islamic scholar " once wrote a light novel and a manga?
• ... that the Jordan-based fashion company Shukr sells clothing named after prominent Muslim women?
• ... that people in the Indian subcontinent eat a sweet dish resembling a bird's nest during Ramadan?
• ... that Raşit Küçük , a biographer of Muhammad, earned his doctorate exploring love?

Maikel García

• The World Baseball Classic concludes with Venezuela defeating the United States in the final (tournament MVP Maikel García pictured).
• In association football, the Confederation of African Football overturns the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final originally won by Senegal, declaring Morocco the winner of the tournament.
• More than 100 people are killed by a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
• Denis Sassou Nguesso is proclaimed the winner of the Republic of the Congo presidential election .

March 21 : Harmony Day in Australia; Oltenia Day in Romania

Alcatraz Island

• 1556 – Thomas Cranmer , a former archbishop of Canterbury and one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burned at the stake for heresy in Oxford, England.
• 1844 – The Baháʼí calendar , used in the Baháʼí Faith, began.
• 1963 – The Federal Bureau of Prisons closed Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island (pictured) in San Francisco Bay, California.
• 1983 – In the West Bank, a number of Palestinian girls complained of breathing difficulties due to strange odors, leading to accusations of poison gas.
• 2006 – Jack Dorsey sent the first message on the social-media network Twitter .