Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have snow today, in town, but less than an inch of accumulation. Our high temperature today will be thirty-two degrees. Sunrise is 7:18 AM and sunset 4:54 PM, for 9h 35m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1924, Lenin drops dead, too late to prevent the establishment of a murderous and tyrannical state:
In 1922, the Russian SFSR joined former territories of the Russian Empire in becoming the Soviet Union, with Lenin as its head of government. Only 13 months later, after being incapacitated by a series of strokes, Lenin died at his home in Gorki.
For a sad but thorough account of Lenin’s legacy, one could consult The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, a scholarly account of leninist policies’ responsibility for the deaths of tens of millions.
On January 21, 1935, Janesville’s next generation gets in trouble:
1935 – Five Janesville Youths Arrested
On this date five Janesville boys, ages 13-16, were arrested for a string of burglaries, including the thefts of cigarettes, whisky and blankets. While in the police station, one of the boys tried to crack the safe in the chief’s office. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
Google-a-Day asks a baseball question:
One of the greatest baseball players of all time was banned from the game for life after he and seven other players accepted bribes to throw a game in what year?