Good morning, Whitewater.
Friday in town will be mostly cloudy, with a probability of morning thundershowers, and a high of seventy-six. Sunrise is 6:24 AM and sunset 7:23 PM. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase with eighty-four percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1774, legislators gather:
…in response to the British Parliament’s enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates from all of the colonies except Georgia drafted a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress. Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams and John Jay were among the delegates….
Parliament, outraged by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, called the “Intolerable Acts” by colonists, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British….
On this day in 1864, Wisconsinites serving the Union remain in a standoff:
1864 – (Civil War) Standoff at Lovejoy Station, Georgia, continues
Actions at Lovejoy Station in Georgia began to wind down. The 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 24th, 25th and 32nd Wisconsin Infantry regiments along with the 10th Wisconsin Light Artillery took part. For three days the two sides had faced off and parried without actually engaging in a significant battle.
Google-a-Day asks a question about film:
What comedy filmed in black and white in the 1960’s in less than 7 weeks, featuring a “clean old man”, was rated by Time magazine as one of the all time great 100 films?