Good morning, Whitewater.
Our holiday weekend ends with a mostly cloudy day, a high of eighty-six, and a one-in-five chance of thunderstorms after three o’clock.
I’ve a brief video of this year’s fireworks in Whitewater, Scenes from Whitewater, Wisconsin’s Independence Day Fireworks, 7.4.14, but what would it be like to film a fireworks displays from within those pyrotechnics? It would be this this video from Florida, filmed with a GoPro camera and a Phantom drone:
On July 6, 1775, a Congress considers conflict with Britain:
On this day in 1775, one day after restating their fidelity to King George III and wishing him “a long and prosperous reign” in the Olive Branch Petition, Congress sets “forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms” against British authority in the American colonies. The declaration also proclaimed their preference “to die free men rather than live as slaves.”
In our own state’s history on this day in 1935, a riot took place at a malted milk plant:
1934 – Seven injured in riot at Horlick plant
On this day three policemen and five office employees of the Horlick Malted Milk Corp. were injured when a crowd of strike sympathizers stormed a motorcade of employees entering the plant’s main gate. Emerging from a crowd of 500 striking employees, the rioters overpowered police escorts, shattered windshields and windows, and pelted officers with rocks. Police blamed Communist influence for the incident, and former Communist congressional candidate John Sekat was arrested in the incident. Employees of the plant were demanding wage increases and recognition of the Racine County Workers Committee as their collective bargaining agent. [Source: Capital Times 7/6/1934, p. 1]