Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday brings partly cloudy skies and a high of sixty-two. Sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset 8:13 PM, for 14h 45m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 82.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
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).
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]
A Google a Day asks about a business name: “What was the previous name of the shipping company, whose ferry sank off the coast of Papua New Guinea on February 2, 2012?”