THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

— C. S. Lewis

BIRTHDAYS:

1511 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor and architect.

1677 Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer. Il Trionfo della Grazia – Sinfonia, and Stabat Mater, and Godo ma come non sò

1717 Johann Stamitz, Bohemian composer and violinist. Sinfonia à Quattro in A Major, and Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in B flat Major (17:23)

MISCELLANEOUS:

NEXT STOP THE MOON? SpaceX Starship Going for Orbit in August and September