THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“If concepts are not clear, words do not fit. If words do not fit, the day’s workcannot be accomplished, morals and arts do not flourish. If morals and arts donot flourish, punishments are not just. If punishments are not just, the people do not know where to put hand or foot.”
― Confucius

BIRTHDAYS:

551 BC Confucius, philosopher and occasional government official from the state of Lu during China’s Spring and Autumn period, whose recorded sayings and ideas on personal virtue, social roles, and effective rule underpin Confucianism, a system prioritizing ethical cultivation, ritual propriety, and hierarchical harmony over coercion or legalism.

1571 Michael Praetorius, German composer. Dances from Terpsichore

1612 Michel Anguier, French sculptor

1681 Johann Mattheson, German composer. Harpsichord Suite #10 in e

1807 Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss-American scientist (geologist, geographer, meteorologist)

1925 Seymour Cray, American inventor (supercomputers)

MISCELLANEOUS:

FINGERS CROSSED. SpaceX’s Starship megarocket launching to orbit for 1st time ever today: Watch it live