Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have a mostly sunny day with a high of sixty-nine for Saturday’s citywide rummage sale. Sunrise is 5:30 AM and sunset 8:13 PM. The moon is in a waning gibbous phase with eighty-nine percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954).
Someone in San Francisco hacked a traffic sign:
On this day in 1673, a great expedition begins:
1673 – Jolliet and Marquette Expedition Gets Underway
On this date Louis Jolliet, Father Jacques Marquette, and five French voyageurs departed from the mission of St. Ignace, at the head of Lake Michigan, to reconnoitre the Mississippi River. The party traveled in two canoes throughout the summer of 1673, traveling across Wisconsin, down the Mississippi to the Arkansas River, and back again. [Source: Historic Diaries: Marquette & Joliet, 1673]