THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

BIRTHDAYS:

480 BC Euripides, Athenian playwright and one of the three principal tragedians of classical Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles, whose works profoundly shaped Western drama.

1642 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer. Sonata da chiesa 8va, and Godo ma come non sò

1684 Johann Theodor Römhild, composer. Bei dem Herrn ist die Genade, RoemV 16, and Mein „Abba“ kömmt vor deinen Thron RoemV 15.

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