Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday in town will be partly cloudy with a high of ninety. Sunrise is 5:27 AM and sunset 8:33 PM, for 15h 05m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 44.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets this evening at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1952, the Republican Party nominates Eisenhower:
The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois from July 7 to July 11, 1952, and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, nicknamed “Ike,” for president and the anti-communist crusading Senator from California, Richard M. Nixon, for vice president.
The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea, to fire all “the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees” at the State Department, condemned the Roosevelt and Truman administrations’ economic policies, supported retention of the Taft-Hartley Act, opposed “discrimination against race, religion or national origin”, supported “Federal action toward the elimination of lynching“, and pledged to bring an end to communist subversion in the United States.[1]
On this day in 1839, a Wisconsinite first receives a patent:
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]
A Google a Day asks a science question: “What star in the Milky Way passes all five tests scientists require for it to be a candidate for extraterrestrial life?”