Good morning.
Friday brings a 30% chance of snow in the morning, and thereafter mostly sunny skies with a high of thirty-nine.
On this day in 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his team arrive at the South Pole, to discover that Roald Amundsen had already been there.
On 1.18.1908, a blaze in Janesville:
1908 – Fire Destroys Tobacco Warehouse
On this date fire devastated the tobacco warehouse of Julius Marqusee & Co. An estimated 4,000 cases of tobacco were destroyed. Losses were estimated at $250,000, Janesville’s largest property loss to that date. Three firemen suffered injuries fighting the blaze. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
Google-a-Day poses a football question: “An NFL game was given the nickname “Ghost to the Post”, as a result of two memorable plays by a great receiver and blocker who played college ball at what university?”