THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

— Ray Bradbury

BIRTHDAYS:

1647 Denis Papin, Physicist, Inventor

1753 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, German-Dutch composer, brother of Friedrich Christian Ruppe, born in Salzungen, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire. Finale – Rondo (op. 10)

1771 Henry Maudslay, inventor.

1862 Claude Debussy, composer. Daphnis et Chloe (32:41), and Suite bergamasque (18:48), and Arabesque No. 1

1920 Ray Bradbury, author, novelist, writer

1943 Masatoshi Shima, computer scientist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

GRAB AN ASPIRIN BEFORE READING THIS. Physicists Say They Know the Origin of Gravity