Good morning, Whitewater.
The end of the work week in Whitewater will bring a likelihood of afternoon showers and a high of seventy-four. Sunrise is 6:15 and sunset 7:35, for 13h 19m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 97.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Washington, Aug. 28 — More than 200,000 Americans, most of them black but many of them white, demonstrated here today for a full and speedy program of civil rights and equal job opportunities.
It was the greatest assembly for a redress of grievances that this capital has ever seen.
One hundred years and 240 days after Abraham Lincoln enjoined the emancipated slaves to “abstain from all violence” and “labor faithfully for reasonable wages,” this vast throng proclaimed in march and song and through the speeches of their leaders that they were still waiting for the freedom and the jobs.
Text of the speech is available online.
On this day in 1928, Babe Ruth demonstrates his hitting power in Milwaukee:
1928 – Babe Ruth Cracks Homer in Milwaukee
On this date Babe Ruth hit a towering game-winning home run in the ninth inning to give his team a 5-4 victory in a baseball exhibition at Borchert Field in Milwaukee. Lou Gehrig also played at this event. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
A Google a Day asks a geography question:
What mountain in Switzerland includes three types of glacial erosion, and resembles an ancient Egyptian structure with four specific sides?