Good morning, Whitewater.
Friday will see light snow in Whitewater, with a high of thirty-eight. Sunrise is 6:22 AM and sunset 7:30 PM, for 13h 07m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1974, a new home run record —
…Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to cheer when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Al Downing….
On April 8, 1905, Wisconsin does what no one else in America had done previously:
1905 – First High School Basketball Tournament
On this date Fond du Lac won the Lawrence College Invitational, the first high school basketball tournament held not only in Wisconsin, but in the United States. [Source: Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association]
A Google a Day asks a question about space:
In the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, what planet’s borders were said to be recognizable from space?