THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

BIRTHDAYS:

1730 Antonio Sacchini, Italian opera composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sinfonia in re.

1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and abolitionist whose novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) depicted the physical and moral brutalities of slavery, selling over 300,000 copies in its first year and shaping public opinion against the institution in the North.

1820 John Bartlett, American writer and publisher (Familiar Quotations).

1903 Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (foundational to computer science).

1930 Charles McCarry, American author renowned for his espionage novels and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative who served undercover in Europe, Asia, and Africa from 1958 to 1967.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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