THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston S. Churchill

BIRTHDAYS:

1593 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author (The Compleat Angler)

1631 John Dryden, English poet, satirist, and playwright (first English Poet Laureate)

1648 Johann Michael Bach, German composer. Halt was du hast

1690 Lorenzo Zavateri, Italian violinist and composer. Concerto per violino “Tempesta di mare”

1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian scientist (molecular theory / Avogadro’s law)

1927 Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon)

1927 Marvin Minsky, American artificial intelligence / computer scientist

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