THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

— Leo Tolstoy

BIRTHDAYS:

1667 Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, mathematician.

1735 Johann Christian Bach, composer. Sinfonia in D major, Op. 18-1

1774 Caspar David Friedrich, painter

1817 Aleksei K. Tolstoi, Russian poet, dramatist, novelist, and courtier of aristocratic lineage, distinguished for his Romantic-era historical tragedies, satirical verses, and lyrical ballads that evoked Russia’s medieval past and critiqued contemporary bureaucracy.

1905 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born British author, journalist, and polymath intellectual whose novel Darkness at Noon (1940) portrayed the inexorable logic of Bolshevik self-destruction under Stalinist purges, informed by his direct observations of Soviet repression.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I RECALL BEING THRILLED AT THE TIME. On this day in space! Sept. 5, 1977: NASA launches Voyager 1 on epic journey across the solar system