THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”

— Booker T. Washington

BIRTHDAYS:

1702 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach, born in Coburg, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg. Präludium und Fuge, g moll

1763 John Jacob Astor, German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor.

1797 Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter.

1875 Donald Tovey, British musicologist (Essays in Musical Analysis), pianist, and composer (The Bride of Dionysus). Sonata for cello solo – Allegro con brio ma largamente (1rst mvt)

1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories.

1920 Gordon Gould, American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier.

1920 Nils Bohlin, Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor of the three-point seat belt.

MISCELLANEOUS:

APPARENTLY THERE ARE MORE THAN SEVEN. New Dwarf Planets Beyond Neptune in 2025

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 A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)