THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

BIRTHDAYS:

1611 Pablo Bruna, Spanish composer. Tiento de medio registro de mano derecha de primeiro tono, and Pange Lingua.

1684 Francesco Manfredini, Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and maestro di cappella (St. Phillip’s Cathedral, 1727-65), born in Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Concerto C Major 2 Trumpets, and Concerto pastorale per il Santissimo Natale

1856 Henry Rider Haggard, British author (e.g., King Solomon’s Mines, She).

1876 Gwen John, Welsh painter.

1910 Konrad Zuse, German engineer, pioneering computer scientist, and inventor (Z3, the first working programmable computer).

MISCELLANEOUS:

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS. Enterprising the Final Frontier