THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

— Harper Lee

BIRTHDAYS:

1874 Karl Kraus, Austrian satirical writer, Austrian writer, journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, and poet of Jewish origin who became a leading critic of linguistic corruption, journalistic sensationalism, and cultural decadence in fin-de-siècle Vienna.

1897 Kálmán Tihanyi, Hungarian physicist and engineer (pioneered cathode ray tube for television).

1926 Harper Lee, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird).

1928 Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist and geologist (co-discoverer of Shoemaker-Levy comet).


MISCELLANEOUS:

AUBREY DE GREY WILL BE THERE. Berkeley Conference on Aging This Weekend.