Good morning.
Thursday brings a true spring day to Whitewater: sunny with a high of fifty-six.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.
On this day in 1865, Wisconsin regiments pressed on against Robert E. Lee:
1865 – (Civil War) Confederate leaders reach Amelia Court House, Virginia
The 5th, 6th, 7th, 19th, 36th, 37th and 38th Wisconsin Infantry regiments were among the troops pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee across Virginia after the fall of Richmond. On this day the two sides reached the town of Amelia Court House, but the Confederates withdrew before a battle began.
Google-a-Day asks a geography question: “What U.S. peninsula, explored by Captain Cook, experienced a tidal wave that destroyed its main port?”