Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public meetings listed for the City of Whitewater today.
It’s a big day for big government in Wisconsin, and America. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that on this day in 1891, Arthur J. Altmeyer was born. I didn’t know who he was, either, but the Society’s website supplies the answer:
On this date Arthur J. Altmeyer, the “father of social security,” was born in DePere. Altmeyer was one of the seminal figures of the Social Security program in America. He was part of the President’s Committee on Economic Security that drafted the original legislative proposal in 1934. He was a member of the three-person Social Security Board created to run the new program, and he was Chairman of the Board or Commissioner for Social Security from 1937-1953. Altmeyer died on October 19, 1972 and is buried in Madison’s Forest Hill Cemetery.
| Almanac | ||
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| Friday, May 8, 2009 | Sunrise | Sunset |
| Official Time | 05:40 AM | 08:03 PM |
| Civil Twilight | 05:08 AM | 08:34 PM |
| Tomorrow | 05:39 AM | 08:04 PM |
| Tomorrow will be: | 2 minutes longer | |
| Amount of sunlight: | 14h 23m | |
| Amount of daylight: | 15h 26m | |
| Moon phase: | Waxing Gibbous | |