THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.”

— Ray Bradbury

BIRTHDAYS:

1675 Johann Georg Christian Störl, German composer. Sonata 26, and Sonata 27 Intrada and Chacona

1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter

1777 Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist renowned for his groundbreaking 1820 discovery of electromagnetism, which demonstrated that electric currents produce magnetic fields and established the fundamental unity between electricity and magnetism.

1950 Gary Larson, American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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