THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

BIRTHDAYS:

1634 Andrés de Sola, Spanish organist and composer. Tiento de medio registro de tiple, and „Tiento de medio registro de mano derecha de 1.tono”, and Tiento de IV Tono

1645 Andreas Werkmeister, German organist, musical theorist, and Baroque composer, born in Benneckenstein, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Praeludium ex. G-Dur

1667 Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, and Anglican cleric who served as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin from 1713 until his death.

1835 Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

1874 Winston Churchill, British statesman, army officer, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading the nation from 1940 to 1945 during its existential struggle in the Second World War and again from 1951 to 1955.

1872 John McCrae, Canadian physician, poet, and soldier renowned for his World War I poem “In Flanders Fields,” which he composed in May 1915 amid the Second Battle of Ypres and which later inspired the widespread use of the poppy as a symbol of military remembrance.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ALIENS. Latest Comet 3I Atlas Anomolies Like the Impossible 600,000 Mile Long Sunward Tail

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO REACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration