Good morning.
Whitewater will have a seventy-percent chance of rain today, and a near-certainty of rain tonight. Tuesday’s high will be fifty-five.
Common Council meets tonight, at 6:30 PM. Tonight’s meeting includes, among other topics, budget presentations.
On this day in 1862, Lincoln removes a general:
….a tortured relationship ends when President Abraham Lincoln removes General George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan ably built the army in the early stages of the war but was a sluggish and paranoid field commander who seemed unable to muster the courage to aggressively engage Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia….
After his removal, McClellan battled with Lincoln once more–for the presidency in 1864. McClellan won the Democratic nomination but was easily defeated by his old boss.
Google’s homepage today celebrates a renowned industrial designer, Raymond Loewy, who was born one-hundred twenty years ago today:
Google’s latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Raymond Loewy, the late industrial designer of the Coca-Cola bottle who was also involved in creating the Shell, Exxon, TWA and former BP logos.
Loewy’s slenderised design for an S1 steam locomotive that saw service in the eastern US forms the basis of the doodle.
Described by admirers as the “father of industrial design”, Loewy, who died in 1986 at the age of 92, was responsible for other notable symbols including the Lucky Strike cigarette packet.
Born in France, he emigrated to the US in 1919 after completing his engineering studies at the Université de Paris and École de Laneau.
On this day in 1912, a referendum to grant women the right to vote fails:
1912 – Women’s Suffrage Referendum
On this date Wisconsin voters (all male) considered a proposal to allow women to vote. When the referendum was over, Wisconsin men voted women’s suffrage down by a margin of 63 to 37 percent. The referendum’s defeat could be traced to multiple causes, but the two most widely cited reasons were schisms within the women’s movement itself and a perceived link between suffragists and temperance that antagonized many German American voters. Although women were granted the vote in 1920 by the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Wisconsin’s own constitution continued to define voters as male until 1934. [Source: Turning Points in Wisconsin History]
Scientific American‘s daily trivia question asks about fatal diseases. (Clicking on the question leads to its answer.)