THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He’ll be on his own, that’s true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.”

— J. Paul Getty

BIRTHDAYS:

1534 Lucas Osiander, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

1567 Christoph Demantius, German composer, born in Reichenberg, Duchy of Bavaria. Passion Nach Dem Evangelisten Johannes.

1657 Michel-Richard Delalande, French organist and baroque composer. Chaconne

1832 Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer.

1852 Henri Becquerel, French physicist renowned for his discovery of radioactivity in 1896, a spontaneous emission of penetrating radiation from uranium salts that revolutionized the understanding of atomic structure and paved the way for nuclear science.

1861 Charles Duryea, American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first auto built in the US).

1892 J. Paul Getty, American business magnate and art collector renowned for amassing one of the world’s largest fortunes through the oil industry and for founding the J. Paul Getty Trust, which established major cultural institutions including the Getty Museum.

1923 Freeman Dyson, British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician whose work spanned quantum field theory, nuclear physics, solid-state physics, number theory, and astrophysics.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I DIDN’T KNOW SPACEX HAD A RIDESHARE PROGRAM. SpaceX launches 131 satellites on Transporter 12 rideshare mission (video)

REMINDER:

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