Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 34. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:30 for 9 hours 5 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 88.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1907, the first ball drop takes place in Times Square:
The event was first organized by Adolph Ochs, owner of The New York Times, as an extension to a series of New Year’s Eve fireworks displays he held at the building to promote its status as the new headquarters of the Times, while the ball itself was designed by Artkraft Strauss. First held on December 31, 1907, to welcome 1908, the ball drop has been held annually since, except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts.
In Paris, a daring daytime robbery at the Louvre captured worldwide attention this fall. It was the second-most daring robbery of the year.1 The New York Times describes how that caper unfolded:
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- The most audacious theft, occurring almost every day in 2025, has been organized and directed from a different location. ↩︎
Learning the truth about Albert Einstein:
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