THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

— Frederick Douglass

BIRTHDAYS:

1404 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist author (Dinner Pieces), architect (Tempio Malatestiano; Palazzo Rucellai; Santa Maria Novella), sculptor and cryptographer considered a founder of Western cryptography, born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa.

1602 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, born in Crema, Lombardy, Republic of Venice. “Incomprensibil Nume” from Act II of his Opera ‘Pompeo Magno’, and Canzon a 3 (Venice, 1656) for two violins, cello, and continuo

1778 Fernando Sor, Spanish classical guitarist, and composer. Etude in Bm

1818 Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, orator, author, and statesman who rose from enslavement to become one of the most influential African American leaders of the 19th century.

1819 Christopher Latham Sholes, American inventor, printer, and politician renowned for developing the first commercially viable typewriter.

1867 Sakichi Toyoda, Japanese inventor and industrialist renowned for his pioneering contributions to textile machinery, which laid the foundational principles for the Toyota Group.

1869 Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist.

1948 Teller, American magician, illusionist, comedian, and writer known for his silent stage persona as the shorter half of the long-running comedy magic duo Penn & Teller.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ALL PRETTY MUCH FROM ONE SOURCE. Crazy XAI Plans. X Money and Emulated Humans this year. Mass Drivers on the Moon

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: