THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.”
― Booker T. Washington

BIRTHDAYS:

1587 Francesca Caccini, composer. Antri gelati, and Chi desia, and Lasciatemi qui solo, and Ave Maria.

1636 Pietro Sanmartini, composer. Symphony for string orchestra in G major I, and Triosonata VI in re minore

1684 Johann Gottfried Walther, composer. Concerto in B Minor LV 133

1709 Samuel Johnson, writer, poet, lexicographer.

1954 Steven Pinker, Canadian-American experimental psychologist, psycholinguist, and author specializing in visual cognition, language acquisition, and the evolutionary underpinnings of human behavior and social relations.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH. ‘I’m so looking forward to seeing nature again’: SpaceX’s Crew-12 astronauts gearing up for trip home to Earth