THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.”

— Tom Gilb

BIRTHDAYS:

1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist, born in Niedersachsen, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg. Nasce la pena mia, Lachrime Pavaen

1684 Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Ciacona

1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter.

1713 Denis Diderot, French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert.

1882 Robert H. Goddard, American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

1902 Ray Kroc, American businessman. He purchased the fast food company McDonald’s in 1961 from the McDonald brothers and was its CEO from 1967 to 1973.

1925 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest)

1930 Reinhard Selten, German economist (Nobel Prize 1994)

1936 Václav Havel, Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ON MARCH 1, 2003, FEMA BECAME PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. MEANWHILE IN North Carolina.

RELATED. Tennessee and North Carolina.

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW. Tzu-Chi Kuo

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.