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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, May 4, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog between 8am and 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 80. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 80. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Highs are expected to remain fairly level until the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1626 American Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
- 1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England.
- 1796 Birth of Horace Mann, educator and author.
- 1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville ends when Union Army retreats.
- 1864 Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s forces cross the Rapidan River and meet Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army.
- 1874 Birth of Frank Conrad, electrical engineer and broadcasting pioneer.
- 1884 Birth of Agnes Fay Morgan, American nutritionist and biochemist.
- 1929 Birth of Audrey Hepburn (Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston), actress, later U.N. special ambassador.
- 1942 The United States begins food rationing.
- 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea commences.
- 1961 13 civil rights activists, dubbed Freedom Riders, begin a bus trip through the South.
- 1970 Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.
