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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, May 21, 2022:
Today:
Patchy drizzle before 11am. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 71. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 57. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light southwest after midnight.
Highs are forecast to remain in the low 70s until the middle of next week, which will see a rise into the upper 70s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1620 Present-day Martha’s Vineyard is first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold.
- 1832 The Democratic party holds its first national convention.
- 1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces.
- 1856 Birth of Grace Hoadley Dodge, philanthropist, helped organize the YWCA.
- 1863 The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins.
- 1878 Birth of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer.
- 1881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
- 1898 Birth of Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur and industrialist.
- 1927 Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic.
- 1941 The first U.S. ship, the S.S. Robin Moor, is sunk by a U-boat.
- 1951 The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea.
- 1961 Governor John Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1970 The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
