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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, July 21, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the low 80s through next week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1667 The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and cedes Dutch New Amsterdam to the English.
- 1861 In the first major battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces defeat the Union Army along Bull Run near Manassas Junction, Virginia. The battle becomes known as Manassas by the Confederates, while the Union calls it Bull Run.
- 1865 Wild Bill Hickok kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in what is regarded as the first formal quick-draw duel.
- 1873 The James Gang robs a train in Adair, Iowa.
- 1896 Mary Church Terrell founds the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C.
- 1899 Birth of Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1925 John Scopes is found guilty for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., and is fined $100.
- 1944 U.S. Army and Marine forces land on Guam in the Marianas.
