Good morning.
It’s a sunny Wednesday ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of about eighty-eight. There will be fifteen hours, six minutes of sunlight today, and sixteen hours, fourteen minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1979, the Skylab space station crashed back to Earth, having earlier been abandoned.
Also on this day, in 1804, Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel:
In Wisconsin history on this date, the Wisconsin Historical Society writes that in 1839, the
First patent [was] issued to Wisconsin resident
On this day Ebenezar G. Whiting of Racine was issued patent #1232 for his improved plow, the first patent issued to someone from Wisconsin. Whiting’s improvements consisted of making the mold-board straight and flat which, when united in the center with the curvilinear part of the mold-board, would require less power to drag through the dirt. Whiting went on to serve as Vice President of the J.I. Case Plow Company and received another patent for a steel plow in 1876. [Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office]