THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“If you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave… Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer.”

— Epictetus

BIRTHDAYS:

1569 Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer, choirmaster, and oratorio pioneer. O salutaris hostia

1690 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and composer. Toccata in a-moll

1752 Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (Jacquard loom, programmable loom precursor to computers).

1860 Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor. Symphony No 4

1887 Marc Chagall, Jewish Belarusan-French modernist painter and stained glass artist.

1907 Robert A. Heinlein, American sci-fi author/novelist.

1940: Richard K. Armey — American economist and politician.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS OPENS UP A WHOLE UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITIES. Today (July 7, 2026), the world’s first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite reached orbit.