Good morning, Whitewater.
Saturday in town will bring an even chance of thunderstorms and a high of seventy-six. Sunrise is 5:17 AM and sunset 8:29 PM, for 15h 12m 28s of daytime. We’ve a new moon, with just .6% of its visible disk illuminated.
Some roads are more difficult than others, but if one assesses difficulty as being dangerous, then the road from in India from Killar to Kishtwar likely ranks as one of the most difficult in the world:
On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy….
When the Battle of Midway ended, Japan had lost four carriers, a cruiser and 292 aircraft, and suffered an estimated 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft and suffered approximately 300 casualties.
Japan’s losses hobbled its naval might–bringing Japanese and American sea power to approximate parity–and marked the turning point in the Pacific theater of World War II. In August 1942, the great U.S. counteroffensive began at Guadalcanal and did not cease until Japan’s surrender three years later.
On this day in 1861, a surgical first occurs in Wisconsin:
On this date Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott, a Milwaukee surgeon, performed the first recorded removal of a diseased kidney. [Source: History Just Ahead: A guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 22.]