THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You don’t have to buy from anyone. You don’t have to work at any particular job. You don’t have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.”

— Harry Browne

BIRTHDAYS:

1725 Joseph Anton Bauer, Czech harpsichordist and composer. Sonata sesta in D major

1818 Charles Gounod, French composer (Faust). Mireille, and Faust, Ballet

1832 William Crookes, British chemist and physicist (discovered thallium; Crookes tube).

1867 John Robert Gregg, Irish-American inventor (Gregg Shorthand system).

1882 Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (The Rite of Spring, The Firebird). Petroesjka

1898 M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (lithographs, often mathematically inspired; noted for tessellations and impossible constructions).

1933 Harry Browne, American libertarian writer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THE UPCOMING GENERATION. Primavera Portena