Y-fronts and ohms

Video and photos by Rosalie Liddle Crawford.

Today we are expecting a fine day with westerly winds.

It's a one-clothing-layer day today with a high of 24 and an overnight low of 16 degrees. Humidity is 82 per cent.

Low tide is at 1.10pm and high tide at 7.10pm. There's sea swell of about 0.3m, with a sea temperature is 21 degrees and sunset tonight is at 7.31pm.

If you're going fishing today the best fish bite time is between 11.30am and 1.30pm.

This day in NZ history 78 years ago in 1940 Jockey Y-fronts hit New Zealand shops. ‘If old-fashioned underwear makes you squirm, switch to Jockey.'

That was the message from clothing manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin when it began marketing the Jockey Y-front to New Zealand men on March 16 1940.

This day in world history, in 1190 the Crusaders began the massacre of Jews in York, England.

In 1621 the first Indian appeared to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1926 physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.

In 1935 Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty. In 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war-on-poverty program to Congress.

In 1968 U.S. troops in Vietnam destroyed a village consisting mostly of women and children. The action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre.

Today is the birthday of German physicist George S. Ohm. Born in 1789 on this day, Ohm discovered the law, named after him, which states that the current flow through a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference (voltage) and inversely proportional to the resistance.

He once said ”The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”

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Have a great day!

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