THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The welfare state is generating citizens who are ill informed, illiterate, innumerate, and uncivil.”

― Richard Salsman

BIRTHDAYS:

1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist, born in Beersel, Burgundian Netherlands. “Donnes l’assault a la fortresse”, and La belle se siet, and Nuper rosarum flores, and Vergine bella, and Kyrie

1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist, born in Hagenau, Alsace, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata Sopra la Monica

1623 Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, singer and musician, baptized in Arezzo, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Aria di Polemone, Berenice, ove sei?, and Piangente un dì, Fileno

1694 Leonardo Leo, Italian Baroque composer, born in San Vito degli Schiavi, Kingdom of Naples. Salve Regina, and toccata n 6

1850 Guy de Maupassant, 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

1877 Tom Thomson, Canadian painter.

1906 Wassely Leontief, Russian American economist.

1906 John Huston, American director and writer (African Queen, Chinatown)

1930 Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.

MISCELLANY:

BRAVO, ELON. Ad Astra

RECOMMENDED READING BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.