Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 6:07 AM and sunset 7:40 PM, for 13h 33m 05s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 81% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked whether a flight attending who used an evacuation slide to leave her plane was using a clever way to avoid congestion or undertook an impermissible use of emergency equipment. A majority of respondents (85.71%) chose impermissible use of emergency equipment.
On this day in 1964, Ford Motor Company unveils the car that saves the company:
The Ford Mustang, a two-seat, mid-engine sports car, is officially unveiled by Henry Ford II at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York, on April 17, 1964. That same day, the new car also debuted in Ford showrooms across America and almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up by buyers. Named for a World War II fighter plane, the Mustang was the first of a type of vehicle that came to be known as a “pony car.” Ford sold more than 400,000 Mustangs within its first year of production, far exceeding sales expectations.
On April 17, 1897, Thornton Wilder is born:
1897 – Thornton Wilder Born
On this date Thornton Wilder was born in Madison. A renowned author and playwright, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1930 to 1937. His plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of our Teeth (1942) won Pulitzer Prizes and have been performed countless times by school and amateur theatrical companies in the decades since.You can read a 1928 article about his Wisconsin roots in our Wisconsin Local History & Biographies collection. [Source: Thornton Wilder Society]