Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday brings a one-third chance of thunderstorms during the day, an eight-in-ten chance this evening, with a high of eighty.
On this day in 1991, Soviet diehards stage a coup against Gorbachev:
The 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt, also known as the August Putsch or August Coup … Avgustovsky Putch), was a coup d’état attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union‘s government to take control of the country from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev’s reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated which decentralised much of the central government’s power to the republics. They were opposed, mainly in Moscow, by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance.[5] Although the coup collapsed in only two days and Gorbachev returned to government, the event destabilised the Soviet Union and is widely considered to have contributed to both the demise of the CPSU and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
After the capitulation of the State Committee on the State of Emergency—popularly referred to as the “Gang of Eight,” the Supreme court of the RSFSR and the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev qualified their actions as a coup attempt.
In Wisconsin history on this date, a baseball great is born:
1893 – Burleigh Arland Grimes Born
On this date Baseball Hall of Famer Burleigh Arland Grimes was born in Emerald, Wisconsin. Knicknamed “Ol’ Stubblebeard” and known as the last legal spitball pitcher, Grimes played major league baseball for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1916 to 1934. After spitball pitching was banned in 1920, 17 established spitball pitchers were allowed to continue with the pitch. Grimes lasted the longest, using the spitball until retiring in 1934. He won 270 games over 19 seasons for seven major league teams, reaching 20 wins in a season on five occasions. He helped Brooklyn to the championship in 1920, the Cardinals to pennants in 1930 and 1931, and the Cubs to the flag in 1932. Grimes was known as “Ol’ Stubblebeard” for his habit of not shaving on the day he was scheduled to pitch. Grimes managed the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1937 to 1938. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964. Burleigh Arland Grimes died on December 6, 1985 in Clear Lake. [Source: Wisconsin Lore and Legends edited by Lou and John Russell, p.30 and Baseball Hall of Fame]
Google-a-Day asks about the architecture of the Ancients:
The Parthenon combined elements of two of three classical architectural orders. Which one was not included?