THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.”

— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

BIRTHDAYS:

1769 Alexey Titov, Russian composer. Star Waltz.

1777 Philipp Otto Runge, German Romantic painter.

1923 Cyril M. Kornbluth, American science-fiction writer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WONDER IF THEY’LL HAVE WEATHER DELAYS ON MARS. SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Pushed to Friday Because of Weather