THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”

— Karl Popper

BIRTHDAYS:

1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic.

1824 Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, born in Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire. “Con ciò sia che” (Margherita)

1866 Beatrix Potter, English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.

1902 Karl Popper, Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

1915 Charles Hard Townes, American Physicist and inventor (Nobel Prize 1964 for mazer-lazer principle).

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Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

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