THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise…”

— Hannah Arendt

BIRTHDAYS:

1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (discovered four of Saturn’s moons).

1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor). Adagio

1810 Robert Schumann, German pianist, composer, and music critic. Papillons Op. 2

1829 John Everett Millais, English painter (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood).

1849 Julien Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument).

1910 John W. Campbell, American sci-fi writer.

1916 Francis Crick, English molecular biologist / scientist (co-discoverer of DNA structure, Nobel Prize).

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION CALIFORNIANS. Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test