THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”

— Epicurus

BIRTHDAYS:

1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait and landscape painter (The Blue Boy).

1805 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, Danish Romantic composer.

1812 Emilie Mayer, German composer of Romantic music. Symphony No. 4 in B minor (31:40)

1899: Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (known for discovery of giant air showers).

1929 Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer (biographer of Ayn Rand).

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