Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday will be sunny in the morning, but increasingly cloudy as the day goes on, with an even chance of thunderstorms in the late afternoon, and a high of seventy-six. Sunrise is 5:19 and sunset is 8:37, for 15h 18m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
An overwhelming majority of respondents to the FW Friday Poll, a poll that asked whether kangaroos should be permitted as service animals, said that they should not be allowed.
Whatever the merits of kangaroos as service animals for people, they’re not always accommodating to others of their own species:
On this day in 1919, the First World War formally ends with the principal warring nations’ signing of the Treaty of Versailles. German representatives were without a spirit of conciliation to that treaty’s stringent terms:
Versailles, June 28, (Associated Press.)–Germany and the allied and associated powers signed the peace terms here today in the same imperial hall where the Germans humbled the French so ignominiously forty-eight years ago.
This formally ended the world war, which lasted just thirty-seven days less than five years. Today, the day of peace, was the fifth anniversary of the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian student at Serajevo.
The peace was signed under circumstances which somewhat dimmed the expectations of those who had worked and fought during long years of war and months of negotiations for its achievement.
Absence of the Chinese delegates, who at the last moment were unable to reconcile themselves to the Shantung settlement, struck the first discordant note. A written protest which General Smuts lodged with his signature was another disappointment.
But bulking larger than these was the attitude of Germany and the German plenipotentiaries, which left them, as evident from the expression of M. Clemenceau, still outside of formal reconciliation and made the actual restoration to regular relations and intercourse with the allied nations dependent, not upon the signature of the “preliminaries of peace” today, but upon ratification by the National Assembly….
On this day in 1832, Gen. Atkinson leads thousands in the Black Hawk War:
1832 – Atkinson starts up Rock River in Black Hawk War
On this date General Henry Atkinson and the Second Army began its trip into the Wisconsin wilderness in a major effort against Black Hawk. The “Army of the Frontier” was formed of 400 U.S. Army Regulars and 2,100 volunteer militiamen in order to participate in the Black Hawk War. The troops were headed toward the Lake Koshkonong area where the main camp of the British Band was rumored to be located. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 93-94]