THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

BIRTHDAYS:

1564 William Shakespeare, English playwright, poet, and author (widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

1623 Jan Adam Reincken, Dutch-German composer and organist. Hortus Musicus No. 4 in D minor, and Fugue in g minor.

1857 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer and librettist. Vesti La Giubba

1858 Max Planck, German theoretical physicist regarded as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized modern physics by introducing the concept of energy quanta to resolve discrepancies in black-body radiation spectra.

1895 Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand detective novelist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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