Good morning.
Whitewater’s midweek will be sunny, with a high of seventy-eight, and calm winds.
This morning the Tech Park Board meets at 8 AM, and in the evening the Zoning Rewrite Committee meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1884, Harry S Truman was born in Missouri.
Scientists have now built a tiny robot that flies…like a fly:
Ingenious.
On this day in 1891 DePere,
1891 – Arthur J. Altmeyer [is] Born, ‘Father of Social Security’
On this date Arthur J. Altmeyer, the “father of social security,” was born in DePere. Altmeyer was one of the seminal figures of the Social Security program in America. He was part of the President’s Committee on Economic Security that drafted the original legislative proposal in 1934. He was a member of the three-person Social Security Board created to run the new program, and he was Chairman of the Board or Commissioner for Social Security from 1937-1953. Altmeyer died on October 19, 1972 and is buried in Madison’s Forest Hill Cemetery. [Source: Social Security Adminsitration]
Google-a-Day has a soap opera question: “On the soap, ‘General Hospital,’ on January 23, Robin finally admitted to Patrick that she was away in what city?”
I’ve no idea of the answer, but I do know that soap operas look like they’re becoming an endangered species. Wait long enough, a Google may be able to ask, “On the last-remaining soap…”