Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in town will be mostly sunny with a high of sixty-five. Sunrise is 5:27 AM and sunset 8:14 PM, for 14h 47m 17s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Birge Fountain Committee meets today at 3 PM.
On this day in 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano explodes, causing significant losses:
1863 – (Civil War) Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Begins
After nearly three weeks spent encircling Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union forces had bottled up their enemy inside the city and prepared to attack it. Seventeen different Wisconsin regiments were involved in the assault that began the next day (8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th and 33rd Wisconsin Infantry regiments and the 1st, 6th and 12th Wisconsin Light Artillery batteries as well as the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry).
A Google a Day poses a question on geography: “What town, once a fishing mecca, is now a desert with a “cemetery of ships” due to the shrinking Aral Sea?”