THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution reading in part, “freedom of information is a fundamental human right, and the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated.” This is our touchstone as well. This is the code of the Voice of America. We welcome the views of others. We seek a free flow of information across national boundaries and oceans, across iron curtains and stone walls. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

― John F. Kennedy

BIRTHDAYS:

1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.

1655 Johann Christoph Denner, German musician and inventor (clarinet)

1717 Christoph Nichelmann, German composer and harpsichordist, born in Treuenbrietzen, Kingdom of Prussia. Sonata for flute and harpsichord in C major.

1888 John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world’s first live working television system on 26 January 1926.

1888 Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor.

1899 Alfred Hitchcock, English film director.

1902 Felix Wankel, German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named.

MISCELLANY:

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RECOMMENDED READING BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

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.