Good morning.
Tuesday will be a snowy day, with a high of thirty-six, and a few inches of total accumulation.
Whitewater’s Tourism Council meets today at 9 AM, and her Urban Forestry Commission at 4:30 PM.
On this day in 1993, a bomb explodes at the World Trade Center, killing six, and wounding many others:
An explosion apparently caused by a car bomb in an underground garage shook the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan with the force of a small earthquake shortly after noon yesterday, collapsing walls and floors, igniting fires and plunging the city’s largest building complex into a maelstrom of smoke, darkness and fearful chaos.
The police said the blast killed at least five people and left more than 650 others injured, mostly with smoke inhalation or minor burns, but dozens with cuts, bruises, broken bones or serious burns. The police said 476 were treated at hospitals and the rest by rescue and medical crews at the scene.
The explosion also trapped hundreds of people in debris or in smoke-filled stairwells and elevators of the towers overhead and forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 workers from a trade center bereft of power for lights and elevators for seven hours.
Google-a-Day poses a history question: “Who was the former municipal judge that became the source of criminal allegations against the 42nd U.S. President?”