THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

BIRTHDAYS:

1653 Georg Muffat, Baroque composer. Violin Sonata

1755 Frederigo Fiorillo, Italian violist, mandolinist, and composer. Etude No. 32

1769 Józef Elsner, Polish composer and teacher of Chopin. Ouverture from the opera “Leszek the White”

1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mechanical engineer and mathematician (“father of thermodynamics”).

1804 — Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer. Ruslan and Ludmila – Overture, and 3 Russian Songs

1907 Frank Whittle, English RAF engineer and inventor of the turbojet engine.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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