THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

— Samuel Johnson

BIRTHDAYS:

1587 Francesca Caccini, Italian singer, composer born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Lasciatemi qui solo

1636 Pietro Sanmartini, Italian composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonata Prima in Do maggiore per violino e b. c.

1684 Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer and musicologist, born in Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz, Holy Roman Empire. Concerto in B Minor LV 133.

1709 Samuel Johnson, English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.

1954 Steven Pinker, Canadian American cognitive psychologist and author.

1960 Joshua Angrist, Israeli-American economist (2021 Nobel Prize for Economics)

1975 Barrett Comiskey, American inventor (E Ink, enabled e-books).

MISCELLANEOUS:

COMPETITION. ‘A game changer’: Space shuttle astronaut Pam Melroy joins Venus Aerospace after revolutionary rocket engine breakthrough

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