THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“In the year 1456 … a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun… Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.”

― Edmond Halley

BIRTHDAYS:

1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geophysicist. In 1684 Halley visited Isaac Newton at Cambridge, learned that Newton had solved key problems of planetary motion, and encouraged him to expand the work. Halley edited, proofread, and personally financed the publication of Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), one of the most important scientific books ever written.

1836 James Ritty, American inventor (mechanical cash register)

1861 Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter

1925 Dominick Dunne, American writer and producer

1954 Lee Child (James Grant), English novelist (Jack Reacher series)

MISCELLANEOUS:

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