Good morning, Whitewater.
The week begins with mostly cloudy skies, a likelihood of rain this evening, with a high of sixty. Sunrise is 5:36 AM and sunset 8:05 PM, for 14h 28m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 9.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
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]
A Google a Day asks a football question: “What former Baltimore Colt inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968, published an autobiography in 1987?”