Good morning.
Saturday will be partly sunny, with a forty-percent chance of afternoon showers, and a high of seventy-eight.
On this day in 1980, a news medium is born:
CNN (Cable News Network), the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. The network signed on at 6 p.m. EST from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, with a lead story about the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. CNN went on to change the notion that news could only be reported at fixed times throughout the day. At the time of CNN’s launch, TV news was dominated by three major networks–ABC, CBS and NBC–and their nightly 30-minute broadcasts. Initially available in less than two million U.S. homes, today CNN is seen in more than 89 million American households and over 160 million homes internationally.
From that fine cable network, here’s a story about video games in public bathrooms:
In Wisconsin history, on 6.1.1843,
1843 – First Vessel Docks at Milwaukee Cargo Pier
On this date the first vessel, the Cleveland, docked at North Pier. This pier allowed vessels too large to enter the original mouth of the Milwaukee River a place to unload cargo and passengers. The pier was 1200 feet long and 44 feet wide. It was destroyed by strong winds and ice in 1846. [Source: Milwaukee County Historical Markers]