Good morning.
It’s a partly sunny Saturday for Whitewater, with a high of fifty-five, and northwest winds at 5 miles per hour.
On this day in 1973, it was a Saturday Night Massacre in Washington: “in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus.”
In Wisconsin history on this day, a fish tale turned out to be true:
1949 – Really Huge Fish Caught
On this date a record-breaking muskellunge (“muskie”) was caught on the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward. The fish weighed 69 pounds, 11 ounces. The muskie became the official state fish of Wisconsin in 1955. [Source: American Profile Note: Linked picture is not the record breaking fish]
Google’s daily puzzle asks about presidential history: “Who married the grandson of the man to whom her father had served two terms as Vice President of the United States?”