THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Governments never learn; only people learn.”

— Milton Friedman

BIRTHDAYS:

1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Prince of Venosa and composer, born in Venosa, Kingdom of Naples. Plange Quasi Virgo, and Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, and O Vos Omnes, and Tenebrae Factae Sunt, and Omnes amici mei

1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire. Symphony in E-flat major Wq179

1822 Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist and entrepreneur, founder of the world’s first crude oil mine, inventor of the kerosene lamp , pioneer of the oil industry in Europe, revolutionary and independence activist.

1839 Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (automatic dishwasher).

1859 Kenneth Grahame, British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children’s literature The Wind in the Willows (1908).

1916 John W. Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer.

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