THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

― Rumi

BIRTHDAYS:

1207 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet, scholar, and mystic

1550 Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (teacher of Johannes Kepler)

1622 Johann Sebastiani, German Baroque composer. Matthäuspassion

1685 Gunther Jacob, Bohemian organist, composer, and choirmaster. Te Deum

1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist and co-inventor of the Geiger counter

1908 Herbert Maxwell Strong, American physicist and inventor (early synthetic diamonds)

1924 Truman Capote, American author (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, In Cold Blood)

1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author (Night; Nobel Peace Prize, 1986)

MISCELLANEOUS:

NO NEED FOR NICU. Astronomers have produced the clearest exoplanet ‘ultrasound’ to date and it’s twins!