THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.”

― Erno Rubik

BIRTHDAYS:

100 BC Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman.

1787 Pellegrino Rossi, Italian economist and politician, born in Carrara, Duchy of Massa and Carrara.

1864 John Jacob Astor IV, American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family.

1884 John Francis Larchet, Irish arranger (Irish national anthem), composer. Padraic the Fiddler

1940 Patrick Stewart, English actor.

1944 Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor, widely known for creating the Rubik’s Cube.

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