Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public, municipal meetings scheduled for today in Whitewater.
The New York Times recalls that on this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment went into effect:
The half-century struggle for woman suffrage in the United States reached its climax at 8 o’clock this morning, when Bainbridge Colby, as Secretary of State, issued his proclamation announcing that the Nineteenth Amendment had become a part of the Constitution of the United States.
The signing of the proclamation took place at that hour at Secretary Colby’s residence, 1507 K Street Northwest, without ceremony of any kind, and the issuance of the proclamation was unaccompanied by the taking of movies or other pictures, despite the fact that the National Woman’s Party, or militant branch of the general suffrage movement, had been anxious to be represented by a delegation of women and to have the historic event filmed for public display and permanent record.
Here’s today’s almanac:
| Almanac | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 26, 2009 | Sunrise | Sunset |
| Official Time | 06:12 AM | 07:39 PM |
| Civil Twilight | 05:43 AM | 08:09 PM |
| Tomorrow | 06:13 AM | 07:38 PM |
| Tomorrow will be: | 2 minutes shorter | |
| Amount of sunlight: | 13h 27 m | |
| Amount of daylight: | 14h 26 m | |
| Moon phase: | Waxing crescent | |