THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

— Cicero

BIRTHDAYS:

1635 Paul Esterházy, composer. Pangue lingua

1726 François-André Danican Philidor, composer. Danse de village, and Sinfonia 1 in g minor from l’Art de la Modulation, and Cinquième Suite for the oboe

1737 Luigi Galvani, physicist

1777 Heinrich David Stölzel, inventor (brass-instrument valve)

1831 — Alexandre Falguière, sculptor and painter

1914 James Van Allen, physicist

1950 Peggy Noonan, author

MISCELLANEOUS:

NO GRILLED HOT DOGS THOUGH. Labor Day in space: NASA astronauts get the holiday off