08Sep09

"Did you visit the art galleries when you were in New York."
"We did'nt need to. Our daughter paints."

1925, Peter Sellers is born.

1930, Accidental discovery of the planet Pluto following miscalculation. These calculations, which later turned out to be erroneous, gave way to the conclusion that there was a planet beyond Neptune, based on the motions of Uranus and Neptune. Unaware of the error, Clyde W. Tombaught at Lowell Observatory in Arizona did a very careful sky survey which turned up Pluto anyway.

Quote for the day:
The tragedy of the flea is that he knows for a certainty that all of his children will go to the dogs.