Good morning, Whitewater.
Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty-one. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset is 7:07 PM, 12h 10m 05s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1979, a new channel launches:
C-SPAN was launched on March 19, 1979,[10] in time for the first televised session made available by the House of Representatives, beginning with a speech by then-Tennessee representative Al Gore.[11][12] Upon its debut, only 3.5 million homes were wired for C-SPAN,[13] and the network had just three employees.[14] The second C-SPAN channel, C-SPAN2, followed on June 2, 1986 when the U.S. Senate permitted itself to be televised.[15][16] C-SPAN3, the most recent expansion channel, began full-time operations on January 22, 2001,[17] and shows other public policy and government-related live events on weekdays along with weekend historical programming.[5] C-SPAN3 is the successor of a digital channel called C-SPAN Extra, which was launched in the Washington D.C. area in 1997, and televised live and recorded political events from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday.[17][18]
C-SPAN Radio began operations on October 9, 1997, covering similar events as the television networks and often simulcasting their programming.[19] The station broadcasts on WCSP (90.1 FM) in Washington, D.C., is also available on XM Satellite Radio channel 120 and is streamed live at c-span.org.[1] It was formerly available on Sirius Satellite Radio from 2002 to 2006.[20]
Lamb semi-retired in March 2012, coinciding with the channel’s 33rd anniversary, and gave executive control of the network to his two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain.[21]
On this day in 1865, Wisconsinites fight at Goldsborough:
1865 – (Civil War) Battle of Goldsborough, North Carolina, Begins
The 21st, 22nd and 25th Wisconsin Infantry regiments took part in the battle at Goldsborough, North Carolina, during the Campaign of the Carolinas. Three Union armies totaling 100,000 men attacked the city in order to control its strategically important railroad lines.