THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”

— Alexander Fleming

BIRTHDAYS:

1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer (also singer and theorbo player). Che si può fare op. 8, and Amor dormiglione

1667 Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (key figure in the development of calculus).

1809 Alfred Tennyson (Lord Tennyson), British poet (Poet Laureate; known for works such as “The Charge of the Light Brigade”).

1881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist/scientist (discovered penicillin; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945).

1934 Piers Anthony, English science fiction/fantasy author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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