Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of fifty-nine. Sunrise is 6:39 AM and sunset 7:18 PM, for 12h 39m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 70.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1929, the president gets a desk phone:
…President Herbert Hoover has a phone installed at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House. It took a while to get the line to Hoover’s desk working correctly and the president complained to aides when his son was unable to get through on the Oval Office phone from an outside line. Previously, Hoover had used a phone located in the foyer just outside the office. Telephones and a telephone switchboard had been in use at the White House since 1878, when President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first one installed, but no phone had ever been installed at the president’s desk until Hoover’s administration.
On this day in 1865, Union soldiers, including many from Wisconsin, near the end of a long war:
1865 – (Civil War) Appomattox Campaign Begins in Virginia
When it became clear that the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, was about to fall, Confederate leaders and troops began moving west toward the town of Appomattox Court House. Union troops, including several Wisconsin regiments, followed close on their heels in a series of battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, that became known as the Appomattox Campaign.
A Google-a-Day asks a history question:
What tactics did Germany use in France, forcing a desperate British withdrawal at Dunkirk?