THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“When you’re cold, don’t expect sympathy from someone who’s warm.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

BIRTHDAYS:

1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist. Pavan in F Major

1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (Venetian view painting)

1713 Denis Diderot, French philosopher, art critic, playwright, and encyclopedist whose editorial leadership of the Encyclopédie embodied the Enlightenment’s drive to systematize knowledge through empirical observation and rational critique.

1722 Gregorio Sciroli, Italian composer. Sonata per clarinetto – Allegro moderato

1882 Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and inventor regarded as the father of modern rocketry for his pioneering development of liquid-propellant rocket technology.

1936 Václav Havel, Czech dramatist, essayist, philosopher, and statesman who emerged from dissident activism to serve as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. Jupiter will disappear behind the moon on Oct. 6 — and if you’re in the right place, you can watch it happen