Fortitude is a formal word that refers to the strength of mind that enables someone to encounter danger or to bear pain or adversity with courage. Less formal words with similar meanings include grit, fiber, and pluck.
☰Thought of the Day
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
- Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses "The German Beer Purity Law" (Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer in Bavaria, ensuring beer is only brewed from three ingredients: water, barley, and hops
- Netherlands annex several German territories, including Elten and Tuddern, as apart of post-Wold War II border adjustments
- Czech chess master, Vlastimil Hort, plays 201 games simultaneously; won-174, drew-17, lost-10
- Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
- At least 54 jade miners buried by a mudslide in Kachin state, Myanmar
- Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint, born in Muro, Naples, Italy (d. 1755)
- Claude Carter, South African cricket spin bowler (19 Tests, 28 wickets, BB 6/50; Natal, Transvaal), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1952)
- Henry Barraud, French composer, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1997)
- James Kirkup, British travel writer, poet and novelist (African in Greenland), born in South Shields, England (d. 2009)
- Jodie Mudd, American golfer (Players C'ship 1990), born in Louisville, Kentucky
