THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

— Albert Einstein

BIRTHDAYS:

1635 Paul Esterhazy, Hungarian prince, composer and patron. Pangue lingua (Aquinoi Szent Tamás himnusza az Oltáriszentségröl)

1705 Matthäus Günther, German painter.

1726 François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess champion. Sinfonia 1 in g minor from l’Art de la Modulation, and Suite XII in D major op.3

1737 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist and physicist (“animal electricity”)

1740 Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor.

1810 Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist.

1831 Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter.

1855 William Friese-Greene, British photographer and inventor (motion pictures)

1909 Elia Kazan, American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as “one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history”.

1914 James Van Allen, American physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)

1950 Peggy Noonan, American author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ONE OF THIS YEAR’S SADDEST STORIES. Boeing Starliner Left Space Station Without Astronauts and Landed

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.