THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

— Edmund Burke

BIRTHDAYS:

1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, talian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.

1628 Christoph Bernhard, German Baroque composer and musician. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and in Warsaw. Fürchtet euch nicht.

1697 Johann Pfeiffer, German violinist, composer and concert master at court (Bayreuth), born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Suite in B Major.

1729 Edmund Burke, British statesman, philosopher and author (A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution in France).

1735 Paul Revere, American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.

1849 Benjamin Holt, American businessman and inventor who patented and manufactured the first practical crawler-type tread tractor.

1857 Charles Seeberger, American inventor (coined term escalator and designed 1st commercially produced escalator).

1859 Michael J. Owens, American glassmaker and inventor (glass bottle-making machine).

1861 Jesse Reno, American engineer and inventor (created the first escalators).

1875 Charles Rist, French economist who opposed the Keynesian Revolution.

1927 Vernon L. Smith, American economist and professor who shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Daniel Kahnemann for his work in experimental economics.

1976 Chai Jing, Chinese journalist and author.

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