Good morning.
It’s a sunny Monday for Whitewater, with a high of fifty-four.
Whitewater’s Library Board meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
Google marks today as the birthday of Eadweard Muybridge, born 4.9.1830. He’s remembered for his photography and motion studies of animals, and Google’s Doodle highlights that work:
Google honors the english photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge. It is an animation doodle: It shows a “Galloping horse” set to motion using single photos. 27 horses, some are colored like the google logo. Eadweard Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion. The Doodle based an an original sequence by Eadweard J. Muybridge.
On this day in 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at at Appomattox Courthouse.
In Wisconsin History, on this day in 1898,
Earl “Curly” Lambeau, founder, player, coach, and vice president of the Green Bay Packers, was born in Green Bay. He founded the Packers in 1919 and served as the team’s only coach through the 1949 season. Lambeau led the Packers to six world championships and is one of only five coaches to record more than 200 coaching victories in the NFL (others are Don Shula, George Halas, Tom Landry and Chuck Noll). Curly Lambeau died on June 1, 1965, at the age of 67. [Source: Packers history pages]