Good morning.
We’ll have a Thursday of morning showers and cool temperatures, with a high of fifty-nine, and north winds of 10 to 20 mph.
Whitewater’s Community Development Association meets today at 4:30 PM.
Google’s announced the winner of their Doodle 4 Google contest, and she’s Sarah Brady of Wisconsin, whose creation depicts a reunion during wartime:
We’ll be far better off when American schoolchildren in Wisconsin or elsewhere no longer need to depict a parent’s return from combat as an answer to the theme, ‘My Best Day Ever.’
On 5.23.1934, two killers meet their end:
On this day in 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana….
Texan prison officials hired a retired Texas police officer, Captain Frank Hamer, as a special investigator to track down Parker and Barrow. After a three-month search, Hamer traced the couple to Louisiana, where Henry Methvin’s family lived. Before dawn on May 23, Hamer and a group of Louisiana and Texas lawmen hid in the bushes along a country road outside Sailes. When Parker and Barrow appeared, the officers opened fire, killing the couple instantly in a hail of bullets.
All told, the Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people, including nine police officers.
In 1854, a Wisconsin milestone:
1854 – First Railroad Reaches Madison
On this date the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad reached Madison, connecting the city with Milwaukee. When the cars pulled into the depot, thousands of people gathered to witness the ceremonial arrival of the first train, and an enormous picnic was held on the Capitol grounds for all the passengers who’d made the seven-hour trip from Milwaukee to inaugurate the line. [Source: Waukesha Chronicle, May 24, 1854; Wisconsin State Journal, June 1, 1924]
Google-a-Day asks a science (and crime) question: “What new malware hacked 45,000 Facebook accounts early in January 2012?”