Good morning.
We have a rainy day with a high of forty-one.
The Tech Park Board is scheduled to meet at 8 AM this morning.
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes a major-league player with the Brooklyn Dodgers:
Jackie Robinson, 28-year-old infielder, yesterday became the first Negro to achieve major-league baseball status in modern times. His contract was purchased from the Montreal Royals of the International League by the Dodgers and he will be in Brooklyn uniform at Ebbets Field today, when the Brooks oppose the Yankees in the first of three exhibition games over the week-end.
A native of Georgia, Robinson won fame in baseball, football, basketball and track at the University of California at Los Angeles before entering the armed service as a private. He emerged a lieutenant in 1945 and in October of that year was signed to a Montreal contract. Robinson’s performances in the International League, which he led in batting last season with an average of .349, prompted President Branch Rickey of the Dodgers to promote Jackie.
On imagines it’s not easy to be the president of France, and yet it’s tragically harder to be his camel:
Google-a-Day asks a weather & geography question: “What region of the U.S. was the focus of ice-breaking operations by the U.S. Coastguard in 2011?”