THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

— Frederick Douglass

BIRTHDAYS:

1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer. Dixit Dominus

1867 A. E. Douglass, American astronomer and inventor dendrochronology/tree-ring dating.

1889 Jean Cocteau, French poet, painter, and filmmaker.

1958 William “Bill” Watterson, American cartoonist and author (Calvin and Hobbes).

MISCELLANEOUS:

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