Good morning, Whitewater.
Election day in town will be cloudy in the morning, but sunny later in the day, with a high of fifty-two. Sunrise is 6:33 AM and sunset 4:42 PM, with 10h 08m 56s of daytime.
Google has a doodle for America’s election:
Downtown Whitewater’s board will meet this morning at 8 AM.
President Obama is first elected on this day in 2008.
On this day in 1909, America sees her first commercially-built airplane:
On this date in Beloit, a plane was assembled and built by Wisconsin’s first pilot, Arthur P. Warner. This self-taught pilot was the 11th in the U.S. to fly a powered aircraft and the first in the U.S. to buy an aircraft for business use. Warner used it to publicize his automotive products.[Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers]
For a question of the day, here’s something of history & geography:
After centuries of being passed between Genoa, France and Sardinia what European country was finally granted sovereignty in 1861?