Today in History:
1519 - Magellan's 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate Earth
1776 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. 

A Saint's Feast Day: St. James of Manug

He was a native of Manug, of the Absu area of Lower Egypt. He studied at Absu. During a period of Christian persecution he professed belief in Christianity at Farama. With two other believers, Abraham and John of Samanoud, two natives of Gamndui, he was martyred. His tongue was cut out, he was blinded and then, finally beheaded.

Daily Quote:

"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined.  Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind." -William Shakespeare

"Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge knows that he, too, is a criminal, exactly the same as the one who stands before him." -Zosima, Dostoevsky's The Karamozov Brothers (6.3.h)