Good morning, Whitewater.
Our year ends on a day of mostly sunny and windy skies, with a high of twenty. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:31 PM, for 9h 05m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous, with 78.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1946, Pres. Truman formally proclaims America’s role in the Second World War ended:
Washington, Dec. 31–President Truman in a surprise proclamation terminated formally the period of hostilities in World War II as of noon today.
The action was announced by the President personally at a suddenly called news conference this forenoon at which he said:
“The time has come when such a declaration can properly be made, and it is in the public interest to make it.”
At the same time he emphasized that the states of emergency that were proclaimed by the late President Roosevelt in 1939 and 1941 and the state of war itself, which presumably will run until peace treatise [sic] have been terminated. They would require action by Congress, he pointed out.
The state of hostilities, a term covering the period of actual fighting and one used in defining the duration of many war-time statues, alone was involved in the President’s proclamation, but this served to terminate immediately eighteen emergency laws and scheduled for expiration six months from now or later provisions of thirty-three other statutes.
On this day in 1967, the Packers win the Ice Bowl:
1967 – Green Bay Packers Triumph in “Ice Bowl”
On this date the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys played in what many consider to be the greatest game in NFL history – The Ice Bowl. With the thermometer dipping to a shocking 13 below zero and a wind chill of minus 46, Bart Starr scored the winning touchdown from the 1-yard line with 13 seconds remaining, sealing a record third straight championship for the Packers, their fifth in seven years. Green Bay defeated Dallas, 21-17, to win the NFL Championship. [Source: Pro Football Hall of Fame]
Google-a-Day presents a question on science and industry:
Who founded the company named for the man who invented vulcanized rubber?