THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“This is how we grow: by being defeated by greater and greater things.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

BIRTHDAYS:

1620 John Graunt, English statistician and founder of demography.

1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian composer. Domine, Ad Adjuvandum Me Festina, and Beatus Vir & Lauda Jerusalem

1743 Edmund Cartwright, English inventor of the power loom and wool-combing machine, key to the Industrial Revolution.

1905 Robert Penn Warren, American poet, novelist, and first U.S. Poet Laureate (three-time Pulitzer winner).

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