Historybook: Mount Vesuvius erupts, killing up to 15,000 people (79); Thomas Edison files patent for the Kinetoscope, an early motion-picture viewer (1891); Brazilian author Paulo Coelho born (1947); Windows 95 released (1995).

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho, from "The Alchemist"