Good morning, Whitewater.
It’s a chilly day today, with a high expected to be no more than three below zero. For it all, we’ll have sunny skies. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:37 PM, for 9h 12m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 94.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Schools are closed today. Stay warm, play responsibly.
There’s a trailer online for Marvel’s upcoming feature-length film, Ant-Man. Wow, it looks promising, and from the trailer one gets the impression that the film has a sense of humor about itself.
See what you think:
Ant-Man is scheduled for release on July 17, 2015.
On this day in 1953, Pres. Truman makes an announcement:
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 responds to evidence of an atomic explosion occurring within USSR in 1949.
On this day in 1901, Fighting Bob becomes governor:
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.
Google-a-Day asks a question about literature:
What was the only bestselling novel by the author who gave Hemingway his letter of introduction to Gertrude Stein?