THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

BIRTHDAYS:

1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, translator, and printer who introduced the movable-type printing press to England in 1476, establishing the nation’s first printing operation at Westminster and producing over 100 books during his lifetime.

1814 Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (spectroscopy).

1817 Károly Thern Hungarian composer. Magyar induló, and Magyar Induló

1820 George Grove, British civil engineer, writer, musicologist, and music historian (Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians).

1879 John Ireland, English composer and pianist. Piano Concerto

1899 Alfred Hitchcock, English filmmaker renowned for directing psychological thrillers and suspense films over a six-decade career.

1912 Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969).

1924 Yuri Orlov, Russian physicist and human rights activist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

APPARENTLY LEAD ISN’T THE SOLUTION AFTER ALL. Radiation-shielding vest aced Artemis I lunar test, could protect astronauts on moon and Mars missions

NOT A BAD IDEA. New private ‘Perceptor’ probes will keep an eye on satellites high above Earth