Good morning.
Whitewater’s week ends with mostly cloudy skies and a high of forty-eight.
Tonight at 6 PM, Whitewater will hold her annual Holly Days Christmas Parade, beginning at Main & Whiton, traveling down Main, and turning on Whitewater Street toward the Cravath lakefront.
On this day in 1954, a truly rare misfortune befalls Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges of Alabama:
The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes a woman on the hip. The victim, Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, was sleeping on a couch at the time of impact. The space rock was a sulfide meteorite weighing 8.5 pounds and measuring seven inches in length. Mrs. Hodges was not permanently injured but suffered a nasty bruise along her hip and leg.
Ancient Chinese records tell of people being injured or killed by falling meteorites, but the Sylacauga meteorite was the first modern record of this type of human injury. In 1911, a dog in Egypt was killed by the Nakhla meteorite.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about a famous canine: “In 2005, Variety magazine issued its list of “100 Icons of the Century.” What was the name of only canine entry on the list?”