THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?”

— Friedrich Schiller

BIRTHDAYS:

1743 Thomas Jefferson, “Author of the Declaration of American Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia”.

1769 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter.

1771 Richard Trevithick, English inventor (steam locomotive).

1832 James Wimshurst, British designer and inventor (electrostatic generator).

1841 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor.

1852 Frank Winfield Woolworth, American merchant who founded the F. W. Woolworth Company and pioneered the fixed-price five-and-ten-cent variety store that transformed retail by offering affordable, mass-produced goods without bargaining.

1892 Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish physicist and radio engineer who pioneered the practical application of radar for aircraft detection, leading the development of the Chain Home early-warning radar network that provided Britain with a decisive defensive advantage during the Second World War.

1899 Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game inventor (Scrabble).

1949 Christopher Hitchens, British-born American author, journalist, and polemicist renowned for his razor-sharp critiques of religion, authoritarianism, and intellectual complacency.

1963 Garry Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster, author, and political activist.

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