THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”

— Sir Isaac Newton

BIRTHDAYS:

1694 Johann Samuel Endler, German composer, musician, and conductor. Pratum Integrum Orchestra.

1782 John Field, Irish pianist and composer (known for Nocturnes). Nocturne no. 5 in B flat Major

1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Piano Concerto No.2 in E-flat major, Op.25

1796 George Catlin, American author and painter (known for American Indian scenes)

1842 Alfred Marshall, British economist (author of Principles of Economics)

1856 George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist/writer/playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1925)

MISCELLANEOUS:

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