Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny, with a high of seventy, and a thirty percent chance of showers in the late afternoon.
On this day in 1974, Pres. Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former Pres. Nixon.
Also on this day, in 1664, New Amsterdam became New York:
Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him. Following its capture, New Amsterdam’s name was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York, who organized the mission.
The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey. A successful Dutch settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened New Amsterdam…
In 1664, New Amsterdam passed to English control, and English and Dutch settlers lived together peacefully. In 1673, there was a short interruption of English rule when the Netherlands temporary regained the settlement. In 1674, New York was returned to the English, and in 1686 it became the first city in the colonies to receive a royal charter. After the American Revolution, it became the first capital of the United States.
The Wisconsin Historical Society records that on this day in 1958,
1958 – Janesville Women Belly Up to the Bar
On this date the Janesville city council voted 4-2 to finally end a paternalistic and discriminatory ordinance that prohibited women from drinking at the bar. Since the end of Prohibition in 1933, women had been banned from being served while standing at the bar in Janesville taverns. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
A quick check of an atlas confirms that, despite this change, Janesville’s still around.
Google’s daily puzzle‘s throwing out a bit of weekend math and physics: “Would you describe the mathematical quantity represented by “a = F/m” as a vector or scalar quantity?”