THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”

— Clarence Thomas

BIRTHDAYS:

1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Quam pulchra es

1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and music theorist. Concerto in F, SeiH. 233

MISCELLANEOUS:

A CLOSE CALL (TOO CLOSE). On this day in space: April 17, 1970: Apollo 13 Returns from Aborted Moon Mission

HYDOCARBONS LAKES? ‘Tall waves moving in slow motion’: Here’s how oily oceans on Saturn’s giant moon Titan may behave