Five-term Democratic state Rep. Dave Considine of Baraboo won’t seek reelection to his Sauk County seat, he announced Wednesday, opting to spend more time with his grandchildren and in the outdoors.
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First elected in 2014, state Rep. Dave Considine, D-Baraboo, focused especially on agriculture in the Legislature. He said he was also a champion for hemp farming in Wisconsin.
Today in history: Jan. 31
1865: The 13th Amendment
In 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, sending it to states for ratification. (The amendment was adopted in December 1865.)
1919: Jackie Robinson
In 1919, baseball Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia.
1958: Explorer 1
In 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite, Explorer 1, from Cape Canaveral.
1961: Ham the Chimp
In 1961, NASA launched Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham was recovered safely from the Atlantic Ocean following his 16 1/2-minute suborbital flight.
2001: Lockerbie Conviction
In 2001, a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted one Libyan, acquitted a second, in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. (Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was given a life sentence, but was released after eight years on compassionate grounds by Scotland’s government. He died in 2012.)
2012: Facebook
Ten years ago: Facebook, the Internet social network, announced plans to go public with a stock offering.
2015: Bobbi Kristina Brown
In 2015, Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia townhome and was taken to an Atlanta-area hospital. (She died six months later.)
2016: Novak Djokovic
In 2016, Novak Djokovic maintained his perfect streak in six Australian Open finals with a 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 (3) victory over Andy Murray.
2017: Neil Gorsuch
Five years ago: President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge, to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Gorsuch would be confirmed in April 2017 by a 54-45 vote.)
2020: Donald Trump
In 2020, the United States declared a public health emergency over the new coronavirus, and President Donald Trump signed an order to temporarily bar entry to foreign nationals, other than immediate family of U.S. citizens, who had traveled in China within the preceding 14 days.
2022: Moderna Vaccine
In 2022, U.S. health regulators gave full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
2018: Lunar Trifecta
In 2018, much of the world was treated to a rare triple lunar treat - a total lunar eclipse combined with a particularly close full moon that was also the second full moon of the month.
2023: Alec Baldwin
In 2023, a New Mexico district attorney filed involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” (Prosecutors later dropped the charges, but on Jan. 19, 2024, Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. )
