Good morning.
We’ll have showers and thunderstorms this afternoon in Whitewater, with a high of sixty-eight. New rainfall may amount range from a quarter to half of an inch.
On this day in 1874, Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who discovered the Egyptian tomb of King Tutankhamen, is born.
On 5.9.1950, a first for then-Milwaukee Arena:
1950 – First Sporting Event Held at Milwaukee Arena
On this date, in the first sporting event at the new Milwaukee Arena, Rocky Graziano scored a fourth-round TKO over Vinnie Cidone in a middleweight fight that drew 12,813 fans. The new Milwaukee Arena actually opened on April 9, 1950, but with a civic celebration rather than a sports event. [Source: Milwaukee Journal]
For today’s daily question from Google, something about naval tradition: “What is the term for the traditional ritual by which officers in the UK’s Royal Navy are retired?”