Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of seventy, and a one-in-five chance of morning showers. Sunrise was a 5:18 a.m., and sunset will be at 8:29 p.m. The Moon is a waning crescent with 14% of the its visible disk illuminated.

People should have, and mostly do have, the choice of what to eat. They may exercise their choices, however, either well or poorly:

On this day in 1942, a victory for America:

…the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy….

When the Battle of Midway ended, Japan had lost four carriers, a cruiser and 292 aircraft, and suffered an estimated 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft and suffered approximately 300 casualties.

Japan’s losses hobbled its naval might–bringing Japanese and American sea power to approximate parity–and marked the turning point in the Pacific theater of World War II. In August 1942, the great U.S. counteroffensive began at Guadalcanal and did not cease until Japan’s surrender three years later.

On 6.4.1861, a medical first:

1861 – First Recorded Kidney Removal Occurs
On this date Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott, a Milwaukee surgeon, performed the first recorded removal of a diseased kidney. [Source: History Just Ahead: A guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 22.]

Puzzablity has a new weekly theme for June 3-7: “For each day this week, we’ll give you as a clue a review we wrote of a Tony-winning Best Play. Remove any spaces and punctuation, then delete exactly half of the letters from anywhere in the clue to reveal, reading the remaining letters in order, the title of the play. (You’ll need to add spaces for your final answer.)”

Example:
A HUGE BUST ONSTAGE, ACTED WITHOUT SANITY!
Answer:
August: Osage County

Here’s June 4th’s puzzle:

ADEQUATE SHOW FAILS AT LATEST MATINEE!

Good morning.

Our week will start with sunny skies, a high of sixty-nine, and calm winds.

On this day in 1965, a space-faring first (for an American), as the New York Times reported the next day:

For 20 minutes yesterday afternoon Maj. Edward H. White 2d of the Air Force was a human satellite of the earth as he floated across North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

Tethered to the Gemini 4 spacecraft, he chatted good-humoredly and snapped pictures as he darted about in raw space with a the aid of a gas-firing jet gun. Asked how he was doing by Maj. James A. McDivitt of the Air Force, the spaceship commander, Major White replied to his partner in the capsule:

“I’m doing great. This is fun.”

Puzzablity has a new weekly theme for June 3-7: “For each day this week, we’ll give you as a clue a review we wrote of a Tony-winning Best Play. Remove any spaces and punctuation, then delete exactly half of the letters from anywhere in the clue to reveal, reading the remaining letters in order, the title of the play. (You’ll need to add spaces for your final answer.)”

Example:
A HUGE BUST ONSTAGE, ACTED WITHOUT SANITY!
Answer:
August: Osage County

Here’s June 3rd’s puzzle:

DRAMA AND GENIUS!

Good morning.

Sunday in the Whippet City will be partly sunny, with a high near 61. We’ll have north winds at 10 to 15 mph, and gusts up to 25 mph. Sunrise was at 5:19 a.m., and sunset will be at 8:28 p.m. The moon is a waning crescent with 30% of the its visible disk illuminated.

On 6.2.1886,

President Grover Cleveland becomes the first sitting president to marry in the White House on this day in 1886.

Cleveland entered the White House as a bachelor and left a married man and father of two. His new wife was a beautiful young woman 27 years his junior named Frances Folsom. Frances was the daughter of a former law partner and Cleveland’s legal ward; Cleveland had literally known her since she was born. When she was 11, Frances’ father died and Cleveland became her legal guardian, remaining close friends with her mother. His pet name for Frances was Frank. Observers thought Cleveland would marry his friend’s widow and were completely surprised when, instead, he married Frances as soon as she turned 21.

In another White House first, Frances and Cleveland’s second daughter Esther became the first child born to a president in a White House bedroom.

Good morning.

Saturday will be partly sunny, with a forty-percent chance of afternoon showers, and a high of seventy-eight.

On this day in 1980, a news medium is born:

CNN (Cable News Network), the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. The network signed on at 6 p.m. EST from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, with a lead story about the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. CNN went on to change the notion that news could only be reported at fixed times throughout the day. At the time of CNN’s launch, TV news was dominated by three major networks–ABC, CBS and NBC–and their nightly 30-minute broadcasts. Initially available in less than two million U.S. homes, today CNN is seen in more than 89 million American households and over 160 million homes internationally.

From that fine cable network, here’s a story about video games in public bathrooms:

In Wisconsin history, on 6.1.1843,

1843 – First Vessel Docks at Milwaukee Cargo Pier
On this date the first vessel, the Cleveland, docked at North Pier. This pier allowed vessels too large to enter the original mouth of the Milwaukee River a place to unload cargo and passengers. The pier was 1200 feet long and 44 feet wide. It was destroyed by strong winds and ice in 1846. [Source: Milwaukee County Historical Markers]