Good morning.
We’ll begin our week with sunny and breezy skies, with a high of thirty-five, and southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Our sunrise is at 7:25 AM and our sunset at 4:37 PM.
At 5 PM today, there’ll be a meeting of the Parks & Rec Department.
I’m not sure what to make of a proposal for a fishing pole with a built-in accelerometer that would tell a fisherman when there’s a tug on the line: isn’t detecting a tug on the line simply a fundamental skill of fishing? The Smart Rod would automate that task:
If it ‘does all the thinking for you’ are your really concentrating on catching fish at all? It’s clever, to be sure, but others must be skeptical, too, as the prototype pole hasn’t attracted, as of this post, much funding.
On this day in 1953, Pres. Truman announced that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb:
In his final State of the Union address before Congress, President Harry S. Truman tells the world that that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
It was just three years earlier on January 31, 1950, that Truman publicly announced that had directed the Atomic Energy Commission to proceed with the development of the hydrogen bomb. Truman’s directive came in response to evidence of an atomic explosion occurring within USSR in 1949.
In our state’s history, Jan. 7th, in 1901:
1901 – Robert Marion La Follette Inaugurated as Governor
On this date Robert M. La Follette was inaugurated as governor after winning the November 6, 1900 election. La Follette was born in Dane County in 1855. A Wisconsin Law School graduate and three-term member of congress, La Follette was renowned for his oratorical style. He was the first Wisconsin-born individual to serve as governor. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin History]
Google-a-Day has a sports question for us: “The famous defensive tackle who died during a game against the New York Dragons, played in how many games for the Panthers during his career?”