THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

— Warren Buffett

BIRTHDAYS:

1663 Guillaume Amontons, physicist (and instrument inventor)

1741 Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, composer. Plaisir d’amour

1748 Jean-Étienne Despréaux, composer. Quadrille des Saisons et des Mois

1821 Hermann von Helmholtz, physicist, scientist.

1834 Amilcare Ponchielli, composer. Danse of Hours La gioconda

1879 Alma Mahler, composer. Die stille Stadt, and Vier Lieder

MISCELLANEOUS:

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