Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in town will be cloudy with a high of sixty-nine. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:31 PM, for 15h 15m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 6 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposes:
In August 1774, Lee was chosen as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In Lee’s Resolution on the 7th of June 1776 during the Second Continental Congress, Lee put forth the motion to the Continental Congress to declare Independence from Great Britain, which read (in part):
Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Lee had returned to Virginia by the time Congress voted on and adopted the Declaration of Independence, but he signed the document when he returned to Congress.
On this day in 1924, Wisconsin honors an inventor:
On this date the bronze tablet memorializing C. Latham Sholes was unveiled. Sholes, who lived in Milwaukee, invented the typewriter in 1867. The plaque gives thanks to the “one who materially aided in the world’s progress,” and can be seen at the Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, where Sholes rests. [Source: Badger Saints and Sinners by Fred L. Homes]
A Google a Day asks a geography question: “The European country that has a half-submerged church in the middle of its largest artificial lake is located in what peninsula?”