Good morning, Whitewater.
Our Friday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of thirty. Sunrise today is 6:55 AM and sunset 4:26 PM, for 9h 31m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
The first untethered balloon flight, by Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes on 21 November 1783. Via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1783, men fly over Paris:
French physician Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent, the marquis d’ Arlandes, make the first untethered hot-air balloon flight, flying 5.5 miles over Paris in about 25 minutes. Their cloth balloon was crafted by French papermaking brothers Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventors of the world’s first successful hot-air balloons.
On this day in 1941, Wisconsin begins ramping up military production:
1941 – Badger Army Ammunition Plant Established
On this date the Badger Army Ammunition Plant was established on 7,354 acres of land in Sauk County, near Baraboo. Employment reached an historic high of near 7,500 during World War II. The plant operated intermittently over a 33-year period to produce single and double-base propellant for cannon, rocket, and small arms ammunition. Plant operation was terminated in March 1975 and all production facilities and many support functions were placed on standby status, which continued until 1998. [Source: Joint Munitions Command]
Google-a-Day asks a question about Fantasy Football:
The basis of modern Fantasy Football was developed by Wilfred Winkenbach in 1962, laying the blueprint for a League that was known by what acronym?