Good morning.
Our week starts with a wintry mix of freezing drizzle, on a cloudy day with a high of thirty-two.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM, and our Library Board at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights:
Paris, Dec, 10–A universal Declaration on Human Rights nearly three years in preparation, was adopted late tonight by the United Nations General Assembly. The vote was 48 to 0 with the Soviet bloc, Saudi Arabia and the Union of South Africa abstaining….
The declaration is the first part of a projected three-part International Bill of Rights. The United Nations now will begin drafting a convention that will be a treaty embodying in specific detail and in legally binding form the principles proclaimed in the declaration. The third part will be a protocol for implementation of the convention possibly by such measures as establishment of an International Court of Human Rights and an International Committee of Conciliation.
The Assembly accorded an ovation to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt when Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, the Assembly’s president, after declaring the declaration adopted, paid tribute to the first chairman of the Human Rights Commission for her tireless efforts in the long process of drafting the document.
“She has raised a great name to an even greater honor,” Dr. Evatt said of the United States delegate.
In Wisconsin history on this day, Otis Redding died in a plane crash in 1967:
1967 – Otis Redding Dies
On this date a twin-engine Beechcraft carrying Otis Redding crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, killing Redding and four members of his touring band, the Bar-Kays. Otis Redding was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. [Source: OtisRedding.com]
From Google-a-Day, a question about Poe: “In Poe’s work about a decrepit dwelling and the failing family lineage, who is it that invites the narrator to his abode to witness its disrepair firsthand?”