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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, March 30, 2022:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 68. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 53. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
Highs are forecast to remain fairly steady until next week, which is expected to see a sharp rise.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1858 Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents the pencil with an eraser attached on one end.
- 1867 Russian Baron Stoeckl and U.S. Secretary of State Seward complete the draft of a treaty ceding Alaska to the United States. The treaty is signed the following day.
- 1870 The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race, passes.
- 1870 President U.S. Grant signs bill readmitting Texas to the Union, the last Confederate state readmitted.
- 1883 Birth of Jo Davidson, American sculptor.
- 1909 The Queensboro Bridge in New York opens. It is the first double-decker bridge and links Manhattan and Queens.
- 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration, Oklahoma, opens on Broadway.
- 1944 The U.S. fleet attacks Palau, near the Philippines.
- 1950 President Harry S Truman denounces Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.
- 1981 President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in Washington, D.C. by John W. Hinckley Jr.
