THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I was not born to amuse the Tsars.”

— Alexander Pushkin

BIRTHDAYS:

1448 Domenico Ghirlandaio [Bigordi], Italian Renaissance painter and mentor of Michelangelo.

1830 Olivier Métra, French composer of ballets, light opera, and popular waltzes (Esperance!), and conductor. Quadrille des lanciers (5ème mouvement), and La Sérénade, and Aragonaise-Valse

1903 Robert Morris Page, American physicist (key contributor to radar technology).

1928 J. A. Cuddon, British author and dictionary writer (Dictionary of Literary Terms).

1929 Norton Juster, American architect and children’s author (The Phantom Tollbooth).

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS IS BIGGER THAN I THOUGHT. Will SpaceX still be a launch company after its historic IPO?