Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in town will be cloudy with a high of forty-seven. Sunrise is 6:25 and sunset 7:28, for 13h 02m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 91.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Downtown Whitewater’s board meets this morning at 8 AM.
On April 7, 1776, America captures her first British warship:
On this day in 1776, Navy Captain John Barry, commander of the American warship Lexington, makes the first American naval capture of a British vessel when he takes command of the British warship HMS Edward off the coast of Virginia. The capture of the Edward and its cargo turned Captain Barry into a national hero and boosted the morale of the Continental forces.
Barry was born in the seaboard county of Wexford, Ireland, in 1745 and offered his services to the Continental Congress upon the outbreak of the American Revolution. Congress purchased Barry’s ship, Black Prince, which it renamed Alfred and placed under the command of Commodore Esek Hopkins. It was the first ship to fly the American flag, raised by John Paul Jones.
Barry served with distinction throughout the American Revolution. At sea, he had continued success with the Lexington. On land, he raised a volunteer force to assist General Washington in the surprisingly successful Trenton, New Jersey, campaign of 1776-77. On May 29, 1781, Barry was wounded while successfully capturing the HMS Atlanta and the HMS Trepassy while in command of a new ship, Alliance. He recovered and successfully concluded the final naval battle of the Revolutionary War with a victory over the HMS Sybylle in March 1783.
On April 7, 1970, it’s a first for the Brewers:
1970 – The Milwaukee Brewers’ First Game
On this date the Milwaukee Brewers, one of the many organized sports teams in Wisconsin, played their first game against the California Angels in front of 37,237 enthusiastic fans at County Stadium. [Source: Brewers’ History page]
Here’s the Tuesday game in Puzzability‘s Cross Talk series:
|
This Week’s Game — April 6-10
|
||||||||||||||
|
Cross Talk
|
||||||||||||||
|
We expect to have a series of guessed hosts this week at the Daily Post. For each day, we’ll give a three-by-three letter grid in which we’ve hidden the name of a TV talk show host with 10 or more letters. To find the name, start at any letter and move from letter to letter by traveling to any adjacent letter—across, up and down, or diagonally. You may come back to a letter you’ve used previously, but may not stay in the same spot twice in a row. You will not always need all nine letters in the grid.
|
||||||||||||||
|
Example:
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
|
Answer:
|
||||||||||||||
|
Jimmy Kimmel
|
||||||||||||||
|
What to Submit:
|
||||||||||||||
|
Submit the host’s name (as “Jimmy Kimmel” in the example) for your answer.
|
||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||
|
Tuesday, April 7
|
||||||||||||||
|
