THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

BIRTHDAYS:

1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology.

1469 Guru Nanak, Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet, who is regarded as the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.

1651 Domenico Gabrielli, Italian Baroque composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Sonata in G Major for cello

1688 Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist, harpsichordist, organist, kapellmeister, and composer, born in Buttelstedt, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar. Concerto in Fa maggiore FWV L:F2

1707 Leonhard Euler, Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics, such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus.

1741 Charles Willson Peale, American painter.

1937 Robert W. Gore, American businessman and inventor of GORE-TEX.

1940 Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, English novelist.

1951 Heloise [Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans], American writer and columnist (Heloise’s Helpful Hints)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. Forecast for showers: Plenty of meteors to fill night skies for rest of 2025

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)