THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“If every one of those good words – liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights – has been called “bourgeois”, what on earth does that leave for us?”

— Fang Lizhi

BIRTHDAYS:

1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Fain would I wed

1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

1809 Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist,[6] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

1830 Stephen Wilcox, American inventor of steam generators for power stations and ships.

1936 Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident (Tiananmen Square, 1989)

1945 David D. Friedman, American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist (The Machinery of Freedom).

1948 Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author (Kurzweil reading machine, text-to-speech synthesis).

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