THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”

— Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander

BIRTHDAYS:

1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian religious composer, born in Novara, Duchy of Milan. Sonata decima, and Sonata sesta

1644 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, Spanish organist and composer. Corrente Italiana, and Tiento lleno de séptimo tono por Alamire

1757 Marquis de Lafayette, French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.

1766 John Dalton, English chemist, physicist and meteorologist.

1788 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter.

1805 Horatio Greenough, American neo-classical sculptor and writer

1869 Felix Salten, Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic in Vienna (Bambi)

1919 Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and pioneering inventor (cardiac pacemaker)

MISCELLANEOUS:

YOU COULD SAY HE IS MOONLIGHTING. A Space Force guardian will lead the mission to bring back stranded space station crew

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 6 – 15

HERE’S SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR 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.