Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of eighty-four, and west winds of five to ten mph.
On this day in 1941, America acts to defend Iceland from the Axis:
The neutral United States moves closer to war with Germany when U.S. forces land on Iceland to take over its garrisoning from the British. From thereon, the U.S. Navy had the responsibility of protecting convoys in the nearby sea routes from attack by German submarines. With Iceland and its nearby sea routes under U.S. protection, the British Royal Navy was more free to defend its embattled Mediterranean positions.
The occupation of Iceland came less than a month after President Franklin D. Roosevelt froze all German and Italian assets in the United States and expelled the countries’ diplomats in response to the German torpedoing of the American destroyer Robin Moor. Much of the North Atlantic was now in the American sphere, and U.S. warships patrolled the area for German submarines, notifying London of all enemy activity.
On this day in 1832, Gen. Atkinson takes his forces to Palmyra:
1832 – Black Hawk War Encampment in Palmyra
On this date during the Black Hawk War, General Atkinson led his entire militia, which included future President’s Abraham Lincoln and Zachary Taylor, to a camp just south of Palmyra. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers, edited by Sarah Davis McBride]
I’ve posted Google-a-Day‘s trivia questions before, and I’ll bring them back for a bit, for variety. Here’s one of Monday’s questions (they run three per day):
Of the Romans’ “group of three” gods in the Archaic Triad, which one did not have a Greek counterpart?