Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in town will be sunny with a high of forty-nine. Sunrise is 6:15 AM and sunset 7:34 PM, for 13h 19m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 32% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1861, the Civil War begins:
The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter inSouth Carolina‘s Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort. On April 13, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort. Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern “insurrection.”
A Google A Day asks a question about a race:
In the late 1800’s ladies were given a red rose at a fashionable Louisville Derby party, resulting in the flower’s adoption as part of what race’s official logo?