Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in town will be warm with scattered thunderstorms, and a high of eighty-two. Sunrise is 5:22 AM and sunset 8:21 PM, for 14h 59m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets at 8 AM.
On this day in 1977, Star Wars opens:
The incredible success of Star Wars–it received seven Oscars, and earned $461 million in U.S. ticket sales and a gross of close to $800 million worldwide–began with an extensive, coordinated marketing push by Lucas and his studio, 20th Century Fox, months before the movie’s release date. “It wasn’t like a movie opening,” actress Carrie Fisher, who played rebel leader Princess Leia, later told Time magazine. “It was like an earthquake.” Beginning with–in Fisher’s words–“a new order of geeks, enthusiastic young people with sleeping bags,” the anticipation of a revolutionary movie-watching experience spread like wildfire, causing long lines in front of movie theaters across the country and around the world.
A Google a Day asks a question on music: “What musical period is best described as an era of contrasts; e.g., between loud and soft, fast and slow?”