Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday will be mostly sunny with a high of thirteen. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:43 PM, for 9h 19m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 58.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets this evening at 6:30 PM.
Sometimes a simple thing becomes valuable over time. That’s true with these baseball cards:
It’s Jack London’s birthday:
John Griffith “Jack” London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)[2][3][4][5] was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.[6] Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire”, “An Odyssey of the North”, and “Love of Life”. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as “The Pearls of Parlay” and “The Heathen”, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
During the Civil War, on this day in 1864, a Wisconsin regiment fights in Mexico:
1864 – (Civil War) Engagement at Matamoras, Mexico
The 20th Wisconsin Infantry took part in a battle in Matamoras, Mexico. They crossed from Brownsville, Texas, to rescue the American consul in Matamoras when he was caught in a local uprising between two opposing Mexican forces.
Google-a-Day asks a history question:
What field of work was shared by the parents of the man with the middle name Gamaliel, who served as a U.S. Senator from 1915-1921?