Good morning, Whitewater.
We have a mostly sunny day with a high of eighteen ahead. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:41 PM, for 9h 16m 44s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 75.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
How close would you get to your subject for a great photo or video? While filming in lava in Vanuatu, New Zealand cameraman Bradley Ambrose got close:
On this day in 1946, the first General Assembly session of the United Nations convenes in London. The New York Times reported on the opening session:
London, Jan. 10 — The fifty-one nations of the greatest war-time coalition in history, representing four-fifths of the people in the world, started today another chapter in man’s melancholy search for peace and security.
One hundred and forty-seven days after the close of the war that cost more than 20,000,000 casualties and left countless millions homeless, and on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the ratification of the ill-fated League of Nations Covenant, the nations met this afternoon in the blue and gold auditorium of the Central Hall of Westminster for the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
Greeting them on behalf of Britain, which served as the spring-board for the final conquest of Germany, Prime Minister Attlee told them frankly that they would succeed in their new venture only if they brought “the same sense of urgency, the same self-sacrifice and the same willingness to subordinate sectional interests” with which they fought the war.
On this day in 1883, a deadly fire kills scores in Milwaukee:
1883 – Newhall House Fire
On this date in 1883, one of America’s worst hotel fires claimed more than seventy lives when the Newhall House burned at the northwest corner of Broadway and Michigan Streets in Milwaukee. Rescued from the fire were The P.T. Barnum Lilliputian Show performers Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt. The fire, shown here, was discovered at 4:00 a.m. on the 10th, but sources give the date variously as 1/9/1883 or 1/10/1883. [Sources: The History of Wisconsin, Vol. 3, p.452; WLHBA]