Good morning.

Friday brings a 30% chance of snow in the morning, and thereafter mostly sunny skies with a high of thirty-nine.

On this day in 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his team arrive at the South Pole, to discover that Roald Amundsen had already been there.

On 1.18.1908, a blaze in Janesville:

1908 – Fire Destroys Tobacco Warehouse
On this date fire devastated the tobacco warehouse of Julius Marqusee & Co. An estimated 4,000 cases of tobacco were destroyed. Losses were estimated at $250,000, Janesville’s largest property loss to that date. Three firemen suffered injuries fighting the blaze. [Source: Janesville Gazette]

Google-a-Day poses a football question: “An NFL game was given the nickname “Ghost to the Post”, as a result of two memorable plays by a great receiver and blocker who played college ball at what university?”

Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny, with a high of twenty-two. There will be 9h 26m of sunlight, 10h 29m of daylight, and we;ll have a waxing crescent moon.

On this day in 1893, Hawaii’s monarch is overthrown:

The Hawaiian steamer Claudine arrived at this port [San Francisco] at 2 o’clock this morning [one day after the overthrow] with the news of a revolution at Honolulu. The revolutionists have succeeded in overthrowing the Government of Hawaii, and United States troops have been landed.

A provisional government has been established, and a commission, headed by Mr. Thurston, came in on the Claudine en route to Washington with a petition to the American Government to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. The commission will leave here to-morrow afternoon and reach Washington next Friday.

Queen Liliuokalani has been deposed from power, the monarchy abrogated, Government buildings seized, and the new provisional Ministry, composed of four members, is sustained by bayonets of volunteers.

Queen Liliuokalani attempted on Saturday, Jan. 14, to promulgate a new Constitution, depriving foreigners of the right of franchise and abrogating the existing House of Nobles, at the same time giving her the power of appointing a new House. This was resisted by the foreign element of the community, which at once appointed a committee of safety of thirteen members, which called a mass meeting of their classes, at which 1,200 or 1,500 were present. That meeting unanimously adopted resolutions condemning the action of the Queen and authorizing the committee to take into consideration whatever was necessary for the public safety.

The slug of that New York Times headline: ‘Grasping for more power she fell.’ If only present-day monarchs, far worse, went so easily…

On January 17th in 1900, a Wisconsin strike, at a cotton mill:

1900 – Female Cotton Mill Workers Strike
On this date 100 female employees of the Monterey mill, affiliated with the Janesville Cotton Mills, went on strike for higher wages. According to local sources, a committee of four “good-looking young ladies” was appointed to negotiate with management. Doing piece work, the women earned only $40 a month. The company said the women “don’t know how good they’ve got it…because they are paid more than at other local cotton mills and as well as some men with families.” The women argued their monthly pay only averaged $20. Within three days, all the women were hired to work by tobacco warehouses. The Monterey mill was one of three Janesville cotton mills in operation at the turn of the century. [Source: Janesville Gazette]

Google-a-Day has a geography question for us: “A few weeks after the birth of Michelangelo, his family returned to an Italian city that is the capital of the what region?”

Good morning.

We’ll have a breezy day, with a slight chance of snow showers, and a high of thirty-three, for the city’s midweek.

The Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM.

Mostly, it’s people who catch fish. Mostly:

A person could catch fish this way, if he were bigger than the fish.

On this day in 1991, Operation Desert Storm began:

The United States and allied forces Wednesday night opened the long threatened war to drive President Saddam Hussein’s army from Kuwait, striking Baghdad and other targets in Iraq and Kuwait with waves of bombers and cruise missiles launched from naval vessels.

“The liberation of Kuwait has begun,” President Bush said in a three-sentence statement confirming the start of the attack that was read by his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, shortly after the raids began.

Later, in a televised address to the nation from the Oval Office a somber Mr. Bush said that after months of continuous diplomatic overtures had failed to produce movement by Iraq, the United States and its allies “have no choice but to force Saddam from Kuwait by force. We will not fail.”

Google-a-Day poses a pop-culture question: “Rihanna got a tattoo across her fingers while wearing a piece of clothing with the face of what rock star?”

Good morning.

Sometimes one is both motivated and diligent in one’s efforts –

I’ve a few regular features at my sites, and am pleased to add another: cartoons from Mark Anderson, whose creations have been published in major magazines, for corporate communications, and as greeting cards. One of his cartoons will appear on its own at least weekly at my websites, and others will appear within posts.

Whitewater’s Tuesday will be mostly sunny, with a high of twenty-nine. We’ll have 9h 23m of sunlight, 10h 26m of daylight, with a waxing crescent moon.

Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1967, the Packers played and won their first Super Bowl:

LOS ANGLES, Jan. 15 — Bryan Bartlett (Bart) Starr, the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, led his team to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs today in the first professional football game between the champions of the National and American Leagues.

Doubt about the outcome disappeared in the third quarter when Starr’s pretty passes made mere Indians out of the American League Chiefs and Green Bay scored twice.

Those 14 points stretched Green Bay’s lead to 28-10 and during the final quarter many of the spectators in the crowd of 63,036 left Memorial Coliseum which had been only two-thirds filled.

The outcome served to settle the curiosity of the customers, who paid from $6 to $12 for tickets, and a television audience estimated at 60 million….

Google-a-Day asks readers to field a baseball question: “What was the jersey number of the center-fielder who led the Phillies to their fifth National League pennant in 1993?”