THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is usually not recognized that for every injurious or parasitic microbe there are dozens of beneficial ones. Without the latter, there would be no bread to eat nor wine to drink, no fertile soils and no potable waters, no clothing and no sanitation. One can visualize no form of higher life without the existence of the microbes. They are the universal scavengers. They keep in constant circulation the chemical elements which are so essential to the continuation of plant and animal life.”

— Selman Waksman

BIRTHDAYS:

1714 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Austrian composer (known for operas like Il re pastore; reformed opera in the 18th century). Jascha Heifetz plays Melodie (from Orfeo ed Euridice), Orphée et Eurydice (Orpheus among the Blessed Spirits)

1888 Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1952 for streptomycin discovery; scientist/inventor in antibiotics).

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