Good morning.
It’s a snowy day ahead for Whitewater, with only a slight accumulation expected, at a high of thirty.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM, where they will consider both an appointee to that body and a proposed backyard chicken ordinance.
On this day in 1957, the first civilian nuclear power plant went online:
Electricity has been produced before from atomic reactors, but never before in such quantity from a strictly civilian plant.
The Commission asserted in its announcement that the Shippingport plant is “the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses.”
Since October, 1956, the British atomic-power plant at Calder Hall has been generating up to 100,000 kilowatts of electricity, but this plant was designed to produce plutonium for weapons as well as electricity.
The Soviet Union has announced ambitious plans for atomic power but has disclosed only the operation of a 5,000-kilowatt plant.
From Wisconsin history on this day in 1950, here’s what might have been:
1950 – Lake Geneva Vies for Air Force Academy
On this date the city of Lake Geneva put forth efforts to be the future site for the U.S. Air Force Academy. A federal selection committee arrived to inspect the 100-room Stone Manor on Geneva Lake’s south shore and considered it as a possible headquarters building. The Air Force’s college for officers was eventually located in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1958. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
Google-a-Day asks about MVPs: “Besides being honored as their respective leagues’ 1963 MVPs, what did Sandy Koufax and Elston Howard have in common?”