Good morning, Whitewater.
Thursday will be mostly sunny with a high of eighty-four. Sunrise is 5:37 and sunset 8:24, for 14h 46m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 42.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Downtown Whitewater, Inc.’s board meets this morning at 8 AM.
On this day in 1914, delivery of an ultimatum is a prelude to war:
At six o’clock in the evening on July 23, 1914, nearly one month after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a young Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Baron Giesl von Gieslingen, ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Serbia, delivers an ultimatum to the Serbian foreign ministry.
Acting with the full support of its allies in Berlin, Austria-Hungary had determined in the aftermath of Franz Ferdinand’s assassination to pursue a hard-line policy towards Serbia. Their plan, developed in coordination with the German foreign office, was to force a military conflict that would, Vienna hoped, end quickly and decisively with a crushing Austrian victory before the rest of Europe—namely, Serbia’s powerful ally, Russia—had time to react. As the German ambassador to Vienna reported to his government on July 14, ‘the [note] to Serbia is being composed so that the possibility of its being accepted is practically excluded.’
In New York, residents look back on life in the Big Apple in 1981, and they don’t like what they remember seeing:
A Google a Day ask a question from literature:
What was the drug that Hermes gave Odysseus to help resist the magic of the witch-goddess?