THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

”God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

BIRTHDAYS:

1732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Pygmalion, and Präludium in e, and Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimm

1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.

1899 Pavel Haas, Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček’s school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7. From the Monkey Mountains, and “Study” for Strings

1947 Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, writer, teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.

1953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.

1983 Edward Snowden, former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, June 20 – 29

THE LIBRARY WILL NOT BE REBUILT IN ALEXANDRIA. The ultimate backup drive: the moon

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)