Good morning, Whitewater.
Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of forty-eight. Sunrise is 6:37 and sunset 6:39, for 10h 02m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 15.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
So a squirrel climbs twenty-one floors up a building, and then leaps…
On this day in 1917 (on the Gregorian calendar), the Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian provisional government, and begin Russia’s long descent into dictatorship, collectivization, and mass murder:
The October Revolution … officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution … tr.Velikaya Oktyabr’skaya sotsialisticheskaya revolyutsiya), and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 (by the Julian or Old Stylecalendar, which corresponds to 7 November 1917 in the Gregorian or New Style calendar).
It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and established a provisional governmentcomposed predominantly of former nobles and aristocrats.[citation needed] During this time, urban workers began to organize into councils (Russian: Soviet) wherein revolutionaries criticized the provisional government and its actions. The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the provisional government and gave the power to the local soviets. The Bolshevik party was heavily supported by the soviets. After the Congress of Soviets, now the governing body, had its second session, it elected members of the Bolsheviks and other leftist groups such as the Left Socialist Revolutionaries to key positions within the new state of affairs. This immediately initiated the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the world’s first self-proclaimed socialist state.
On this day in 1863, the 5th Wisconsin fights in Virginia:
1863 – (Civil War) Second Battle of Rappahannock Station, Virginia
The 5th Wisconsin Infantry fought in the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station, Virginia.