Good morning.
Happy Veterans’ Day. Whitewater’s Sunday will bring showers and a high of sixty-five.
On this day in 1918, the First World War came to an end:
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
On this day in 1964, the Rolling Stones first played Wisconsin:
1964 – Rolling Stones Play Milwaukee
On this date the Rolling Stones first performed in Wisconsin, to a crowd of 1,274 fans at Milwaukee Auditorium. Although Brian Jones remained in a Chicago hospital with a high fever, the rest of the band performed.According to a dubious reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, “Chances are, few in the audience missed his [Jones’] wailing harmonica. Screams from a thousand throats drowned out all but the most insistent electronic cacaphony [sic] and the two-fisted smashes of drummer Charlie Watts.”
The reporter continued, “Unless someone teaches guitar chords to chimpanzees, the visual ultimate has been reached in the Rolling Stones. With shoulder length hair and high heeled boots, they seemed more feminine than their fans.
The Stones make the Beatles look like clean cut kids. You think it must be some kind of parody – but the little girls in front paid $5.50 a seat.” [Source: Milwaukee JournalNovember 12, 1964, p.14]
Wow, that’s one uptight reporter: on November 12th, 1964, Milwaukee was still standing.
Google’s daily puzzle combines pop culture and geography: “You leave the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles and walk to a nearby park on Franklin to meet a friend. What is the name of the park?”