THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?”

— Friedrich Schiller

BIRTHDAYS:

1493 Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.

1688 Lorenzo Somis, Italian composer and violinist. Sonata in sol maggiore, and Sinfonia n° 1 in Do maggiore

1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist.

1922 Kurt Vonnegut, American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.

1961 Yuri Milner, Russian physicist and entrepreneur, established the Breakthrough Prize.

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