THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

― Frederic Bastiat

BIRTHDAYS:

1599 Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer. Fantasia for Four Viols, VdGS 1, and Jeune merveille

1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter

1700 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor

1713 Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer, Sinfonia in c minor

1731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist and chemist (discovered hydrogen)

1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer (Rigoletto, La traviata, Nabucco). Nabucco – Hebrew Slaves Chorus, and Triumphal March, La traviata – Libiam ne’ lieti calici

1892 Earle Dickson, American inventor (Band-Aid)

1917 Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist and composer. ‘Round Midnight, Rhythm-a-ning

1921 James Clavell, British-American novelist (Shōgun, Tai-Pan)

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING. Elon’s CRAZY plan for SpaceX to Dwarf the World Economy. Breaking it down