THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.”

— Cosimo de’ Medici

BIRTHDAYS:

1585 Heinrich Schütz, German Baroque organist and composer, baptized in Köstritz, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire. Nicht uns, Herr, and Auf dem Gebirge, and «Fili mi, Absalon» (Symphoniae Sacrae I, SWV 269, 1629)

1823 Mary Ann Shadd Cary, American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer.

1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. La danse macabre, and Le Carnaval des animaux

1859 Alfred Dreyfus, French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair.

1895 Eugene Bullard, one of the first African-American military pilots,[1][2] although Bullard flew for France, not the United States.

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING. How ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment

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