THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian religious composer, born in Novara, Duchy of Milan. Sonata Duodecima

1627 Pierre Verdier, French composer working in Sweden, born in Paris, France.

1633 Sebastian Knupfer, German composer, born in Asche, Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Erforsche mich Gott

1644 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, Spanish organist and composer. Corrente Italiana, and Tiento I de falsas

1648 Johann Schelle, German composer, born in Geising, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Barmherzig und gnädig ist der Herr

1757 Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat who fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution.

1766 John Dalton, English meteorologist and chemist, a pioneer in the development of modern atomic theory.

1805 Horatio Greenough, American neo-classical sculptor and writer.

1908 Louis Essen, English physicist who invented the quartz crystal ring clock and the first practical atomic clock. These devices were capable of measuring time more accurately than any previous clocks.

MISCELLANEOUS:

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW. The Marquis de Lafayette: Remembering France’s Greatest Champion of Liberty, a ‘Hero of Two Worlds’

IN THE FUTURE BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE) THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT ALSO WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration