THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

— Mark Twain

BIRTHDAYS:

1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist. Ave Maris Stella

1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist. Sonata sopra ‘La Monica’

1623 Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, singer, and musician. Intorno all’idol mio

1694 Leonardo Leo, Italian composer. Salve Regina, and Sant’Elena al Calvario (Ouverture)

1850 Guy de Maupassant, French author (short stories and novels)

1877 Tom Thomson, Canadian painter

1906 Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist (Nobel Prize 1973).

MISCELLANEOUS:

WIPE YOUR FEET. Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it?