THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

BIRTHDAYS:

70 BC Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro): Roman poet (author of the Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics).

1608 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist, mathematician, and inventor best known for creating the first mercury barometer in 1643, an instrument that provided the initial experimental evidence for atmospheric pressure by demonstrating how a column of mercury was supported in a vacuum tube.

1745 George Atwood, English mathematician (invented Atwood’s machine to demonstrate Newton’s laws of motion).

1836 James Tissot, French painter and illustrator.

1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, classical philologist, and cultural critic whose radical critiques of Christianity, morality, and modern culture profoundly shaped 20th-century thought.

1881 P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer and novelist (creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster).

1920 Mario Puzo, American novelist and screenwriter (author of The Godfather).

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