Hampton Business Starts Big Transformation Today for Woman with Cancer

Good morning, Hampton and North Hampton. Here are five things you need to know for Wednesday, April 24:

1. Today's Top Thing: A Hampton business will overhaul a woman's bedroom today in order to turn it into a soothing atmosphere for the woman — a nurse and married mother of two — so she can recover comfortably from intensive chemotherapy treatments.

2. Today’s Featured Fun: It's Ladies' Night Out at Lane Memorial Library with a free showing of the classic film, "It Happened One Night," starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, at 5:15 p.m.

 3. What Else Is Happening Today? The Hampton Recreation Advisory Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Hampton Town Hall.

4. This Day in History: On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launched the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule.

Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital's General Post Office. Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in control of much of the city.

Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Nevertheless, the Easter Rebellion is considered a significant marker on the road to establishing an independent Irish republic.

5. Today's Forecast:

Day
A 30 percent chance of showers before 8am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 64. North wind 6 to 13 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Night
A 40 percent chance of showers after midnight. Increasing clouds, with a low around 45. South wind 10 to 14 mph becoming southwest after midnight.