Quote of the day
Don't pity me now,
Don't pity me never;
I'm going to do nothing
For ever and ever.
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

Born: June 25, 1904
Died: June 4, 1976 (aged 71)
Bio: John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.
Known for:
- The Ottoman centuries
- Atatürk, the rebirth of a nation (1964)
- Grand Tour: Diary of an Eastward Journey (1935)
- The Windsor years (1967)