THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”

― Michael Crichton

BIRTHDAYS:

1773 Pietro Generali, Italian composer. “Che grato istante”

1846 Alexander Arkhangelsky, Russian composer. Pomislayu den strasniy, and K’Bogoroditse prilejno, and Veliko Slavoslovlje

1852 Jean-Louis Forain, French Impressionist painter, etcher, and lithographer

1920 Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and inventor (Fujita tornado scale)

1942 Michael Crichton, American author, physician by training, screenwriter, director, and producer renowned for his techno-thriller novels that rigorously incorporated scientific concepts into high-stakes narratives exploring technology’s perils and potentials.

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