THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

— Thomas Paine

BIRTHDAYS:

1389 Cosimo de’ Medici, Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers of Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance.

1637 Hieronymus Gradenthaler, German composer, born in Regensburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Suite in d-Moll (Sonatina-Aria-Sarabande-Aria-Gigue)

1722 Samuel Adams, American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States.

1840 Thomas Nast, German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the “Father of the American Cartoon”.

1924 Fred Singer, Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia,[3] trained as an atmospheric physicist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

REMINDER: THERE’S NO FAA IN UAE. Radian Aerospace begins tests of spaceplane prototype

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.