THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

BIRTHDAYS:

1598 Johann Crüger [Jan Krygar], Sorbian-German cantor, hymn composer, editor (Praxis pietatis melica), and educator, born in Groß Breesen, Kingdom of Bohemia. Wie schöne leucht der Morgenstern

1627 Johann Kaspar Kerll, German composer, born in Adorf, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Toccata 1

1847 Paolo Tosti, Italian composer. L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra.

1919 J. Presper Eckert, Jr., American engineer and co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC).

1928 Tom Lehrer, American musician (“The Elements”), satirist (That Was The Week That Was), and mathematician.

MISCELLANEOUS:

LAND ROVERS ON THE MOON? NASA’s Artemis program has sparked a race to land U.S. rovers on the moon