THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

— Benjamin Franklin

BIRTHDAYS:

1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist (Montgolfière-style hot air balloon)

1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist.

1838 Max Bruch, German composer. Romanze Op. 85

1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor

1872 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) and pianist. Étude Op. 8, No. 12. Patetico, and Fantasy in b minor, Op. 28

1883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher.

1905 Eric Frank Russell, British sci-fi author.

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