THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.”

— Scott Adams

BIRTHDAYS:

1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian cellist and opera composer. Per la gloria d`adorarvi, and La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista” Aria “Giá costretta dal martir l‘alma mia, and Sinfonia per violoncello

1891 Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician, known for work in statistics of extremes, pacifist, and political writer.

1635 Robert Hooke, English scientist, known for Micrographia, microscopy, Hooke’s law in physics/elasticity; wide-ranging contributions.

1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist, Vanity Fair.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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