Good morning,
For Whitewater today, it’s a slight chance of showers, and a high temperature of fifty-five.
The Wisconsin Historical Society notes the birth of a famous, Wisconsin-born historian on this day in 1861:
1861 – Frederick Jackson Turner Born
On this date Frederick Jackson Turner was born in Portage. Turner spent most of his academic career at the University of Wisconsin. He published his first article in 1883, received his B.A. in 1884, then his M.A. in History in 1888. After a year of study at Johns Hopkins (Ph.D., 1890), he returned to join the History faculty at Wisconsin, where he taught for the next 21 years. He later taught at Harvard from 1910 to 1924 before retiring. In 1893, Turner presented his famous address, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” at the Chicago World’s Fair. Turner died in 1932. [Source: Bowling Green State University]
Today is also the anniversary of the day in 1971 when the Dow first broke 1,000:
It finished at 1,003.16 for a gain of 6.09 points in what many Wall Streeters consider the equivalent of the initial breaking of the four-minute mile.
“This thing has an obvious psychological effect,” declared one brokerage-house partner. “It’s a hell of a news item. As for the perminence of it — well, I just don’t know.”
It’s all relative, really. (Too funny, also that the New York TImes offered the brokerage-house partner’s quote as without specific attribution, as though no one wanted to be known for speculation on the topic.)
With a hat tip to the Huffington Post, here a dog proves he’s not just man’s, but also children’s, best friend: