THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”

— Ludwig von Mises

BIRTHDAYS:

1518 Tintoretto, Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school.

1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work considered as the first modern novel.

1571 Caravaggio, Italian painter.

1640 Antoine Coyzevox, French Baroque sculptor (Palace of Versailles)

1654 Vincenz Lubeck, German composer. Präludium in E Major

1703 François Boucher, French Rococo painter.

1881 Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American Economist (Human Action)

1899 Lásló Jósef Bíró, Hungarian inventor (ballpoint pen).

1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.

1943 Lech Wałęsa, Polish statesman, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I could read proficiently when I was in 1st grade – but I was home schooled. To win back public-school parents, be like Mississippi

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