Good morning.
Tuesday brings a high of twenty-six, and gradually clearing skies.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
A decade ago, the Iraq war begins:
On this day in 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction.
On 3.19.1865, Wisconsin soldiers fought in a campaign against the Carolinas:
1865 – (Civil War) Battle of Goldsborough, North Carolina, Begins
The 21st, 22nd and 25th Wisconsin Infantry regiments took part in the battle at Goldsborough, North Carolina, during the Campaign of the Carolinas. Three Union armies totaling 100,000 men attacked the city in order to control its strategically important railroad lines.
Google-a-Day asks about Roman mythology: “Of the Romans “group of three” gods in the Archaic Triad, which one did not have a Greek counterpart?”