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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, April 9, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Light south wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Saturday Night
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 56. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Highs are forecast to drop into the low 70s and remain there for at least several days.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France.
- 1826 Birth of Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate commander during the American Civil War.
- 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrenders his rebel forces to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Va.
- 1905 Birth of J. William Fulbright, U.S. senator from Arkansas.
- 1942 In the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino forces are overwhelmed by the Japanese Army.
- 1950 Comedian Bob Hope makes his first television appearance.
- 1963 Winston Churchill becomes the first honorary U.S. citizen.
- 1966 The statue of Winston Churchill is dedicated at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.
- 1968 Murdered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., is buried.
