Good morning, Whitewater.
Thursday in town will be partly cloudy with a high of sixty-nine. Sunrise is 6:51 AM and sunset is 6:37 PM, for 11h 46m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Fire Department has a business meeting tonight at 7 PM.
On this day in 1899, the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen is born:
László József Bíró … 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985) was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.[1]
Bíró was born in Budapest, Hungary,[2] in 1899 into a Jewish family. His father’s name was Mózes Mátyás Schweiger and his mother’s name was Janka Ullmann. He had one brother, György Bíró. He presented the first production of the ballpoint pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931.[2]
While working as a journalist in Hungary, he noticed that the ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge-free. He tried using the same ink in a fountain pen but found that it would not flow into the tip, as it was too viscous. Working with his brother György,[1] a chemist, he developed a new tip consisting of a ball that was free to turn in a socket, and as it turned it would pick up ink from a cartridge and then roll to deposit it on the paper. Bíró patented the invention in Paris in 1938.
See, also, Who was Ladislao José Biro, how did he invent the ballpoint pen and how did it help in World War II?
On this day in 1957, the Packers dedicate a new stadium:
On this date the Green Bay Packers dedicated City Stadium, now known as Lambeau Field, and defeated the Chicago Bears, 21-17. In the capacity crowd of 32,132 was Vice president Richard Nixon. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
JigZone chooses an acorn photo for today’s daily puzzle: