Good morning.
Patchy fog for Whitewater’s morning will give way to a mostly cloudy day with a high of fifty-five. We’ll have 9h, 33m of sunlight, and 10h, 35m of daylight.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM, with the principal business of the meeting being a public hearing on the 2013 municipal budget.
On this day in 1945, two dozen Nazi leaders went on trial in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity:
The entire day was devoted to the reading of the lengthy charges and bills of particulars to which the defendants will plead tomorrow. Dramatic despite their familiarity and inevitable repetition, these documents reviewed the whole bloody annals of World War II, reviving for many auditors the stunned horror with which the peaceful nations reacted to the news of German atrocities. Statistics attested to the facts and staggering totals were piled up to challenge the defendants’ future declarations of innocence.
Lord Justice Lawrence of Britain, who will preside for the duration of the trial, held court a half hour beyond the announced closing time of 4:30 to complete the text of the voluminous indictment. The actual presentation of evidence is expected to begin tomorrow morning.
On this day in 1859, a happy first for Wisconsin:
1859 – First Baseball Game in Milwaukee
An impromptu game of base ball , as it was spelled in the early years, was played by two teams of seven at the Milwaukee Fair Ground. The game was organized by Rufus King, publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and is believed to have been the first baseball game played in Milwaukee. In spite of cold weather, two more games were played in December, and by April 1860 the Milwaukee Base Ball Club was organized. View early baseball photographs at Wisconsin Historical Images, and read about baseball’s first decades in Wisconsin at Turning Points in Wisconsin.
We’ve more tornadoes than we’d like in Wisconsin, of course; in Australia this week, they had a spectacular waterspout, that a videographer recorded for others to see:
Google asks a sports question today: “Apart from Sir Nick Faldo, who is the only other captain of a Ryder Cup team to have been knighted by the Queen of England?”