THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.”

― Ludwig von Mises

BIRTHDAYS:

1518 Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Italian Mannerist painter

1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote)

1571 Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Italian painter (birthdate disputed)

1640 Antoine Coysevox, French Baroque sculptor

1654 Vincent Lübeck, German organist and composer. Willkommen süßer Bräutigam, and Praeludium C-Dur, and Praeludium in G minor LubWV 12

1674 Jacques Hotteterre, French composer and flautist. Premiere Suitte

1703 François Boucher, French Rococo painter

1881 Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-born economist, philosopher, and classical liberal theorist who led the Austrian School of economics in the twentieth century.

1899 László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentine inventor, journalist, and artist renowned for developing the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen, a writing instrument that uses a rotating ball mechanism to dispense quick-drying ink.

1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian-born physicist who became a leading figure in nuclear physics, directing the team that achieved the world’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1 on 2 December 1942.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT’S LAUNCH TIME. NASA’s Crew-13 mission readies on the launch pad | Space photo of the day for Sept. 29, 2026