Events
1604 - Johannes Kepler observes Kepler’s Star (Supernova 1604), the last supernova to have been observed in the Milky Way.
Births
1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
Deaths
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist
1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
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“When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, even a galaxy. Such explosions can set off the creation of new stars. In its own way, it was not unlike being born.” -Todd Nelson
Ah, Faustus, now hast thou but one bare hour to live
And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!
Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven.
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair nature's eye, rise, rise again and make
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