THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

— Henry David Thoreau

BIRTHDAYS:

1743 Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.[6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

1769 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter

1771 Richard Trevithick, English inventor (steam locomotive)

1808 Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (invented a telephone-like device)

1832 James Wimshurst, British designer and inventor (electrostatic generator)

1841 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor.

1852 Frank Winfield Woolworth, American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as “Five-and-Dimes” (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise.

1852 Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish radio engineer and pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.

1899 Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game inventor (Scrabble)

1949 Christopher Hitchens, British and American author and journalist. He was the author of 18 books on faith, religion, culture, politics, and literature.

1963 Garry Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. I RECOMMEND ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)