Good morning, Whitewater.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be a partly cloudy day with a high of thirty-two. Sunrise is 6:44 AM, sunset 4:34 PM, and we will have 9h 50m of daytime.
Whitewater’s CDA Capital Screening Committee is scheduled to meet at 3:30 PM, and the CDA Board at 5 PM.
At 6:30 PM, there is a scheduled meeting of the Fire & Rescue Task Force.
On this day in 1892, America has her first professional football player:
On November 12, 1892, William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional football player when Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Athletic Association pays him $500 to play as a ringer in a game against its rival Pittsburgh Athletic Club. Before Heffelfinger, players had traded their services on the field for expense money, “double expenses,” or trinkets that players could pawn back to the team–but no one had ever openly accepted a cash payment to play football. (Baseball, on the other hand, had been frankly professional for almost 25 years.) For his part, Heffelfinger never acknowledged that he’d taken the payment. He went on to become a prominent insurance executive and congressman from Minnesota.
On this day in 1836, Wisconsin has her first territorial law:
1836 – Governor Dodge Signs First Law
On this date territorial governor, Henry Dodge, signed the first law passed by the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. The law prescribed how the legislators were to behave, and how other citizens were to behave towards them. For example, it authorized “the Assembly to punish by fine and imprisonment every person, not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect, disorderly or contemptuous behavior, threats, in the legislature or interference with witnesses to the legislature; also to expel on a two thirds majority in either house a member of its own body…” This did not keep the members from vociferous arguments, fist fights, or even shooting one another (see this This Day in Wisconsin History for February 11th)
Google-a-Day asks a baseball question:
Willie Mays began his professional career in 1948 with a team that has what three letter in the middle circle of their logo?