THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another—that in my book is a working definition of slavery.”

― Walter E. Williams

BIRTHDAYS:

1574 Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian organist, maestro di cappella, and composer, born in Milan, Duchy of Milan, Habsburg Spain. Christus resurgens ex mortuis

1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian baroque painter, the most famous European female painter of the 17th century.

1621 Jean de La Fontaine, French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.

1821 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter.

1838 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships.

1839 John D. Rockefeller, American business magnate and philanthropist.

1882 Percy Grainger, Australian-American concert pianist and composer. Country Gardens.

1942 Phil Gramm, American economist and statesman.

1960 Yann LeCun, French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience.

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