THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward and he looks up at me trustingly asking, ‘How am I doing, nurse?’ I just kiss his forehead and say, ‘You are doing just fine soldier.’ He smiles sweetly and says, ‘I was just checking.’ Then he dies. We all cry in private, But not in front of the boys…. Never in front of the boys.”

— June Wandrey, WWII Army Nurse

BIRTHDAYS:

1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Dutch-German-Polish physicist and inventor (developed the mercury thermometer and Fahrenheit temperature scale).

1794 William Whewell English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science (contributions across mathematics, physics, and inductive sciences).

1816 Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (famous for Washington Crossing the Delaware).

1830 Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (key figure in Russian landscape painting).

1863 George Grey Barnard, American sculptor.

1878 Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist, industrial engineer, and inventor (pioneer in time-motion studies and ergonomics; one of the first women to earn a PhD in industrial psychology).

1893 Walter Baade, German-American astronomer (important work on galaxies and stellar populations).

1940 Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987).

MISCELLANEOUS:

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