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Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, September 4, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 99. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 75.
Highs are forecast to remain very warm to hot until at least next week, very gradually dropping over the course of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1804 USS Intrepid explodes while entering Tripoli harbor on a mission to destroy the enemy fleet there during the First Barbary War.
- 1820 Czar Alexander declares that Russian influence in North America extends as far south as Oregon and closes Alaskan waters to foreigners.
- 1862 Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army invades Maryland, starting the Antietam Campaign.
- 1881 The Edison electric lighting system goes into operation as a generator serving 85 paying customers is switched on.
- 1886 Elusive Apache leader Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz.
- 1915 The U.S. military places Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital Port-au-Prince.
- 1941 German submarine U-652 fires at the U.S. destroyer Greer off Iceland, beginning an undeclared shooting war.
- 1945 The American flag is raised on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there.
- 1951 The first transcontinental television broadcast in America is carried by 94 stations.
- 1957 Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African-American students from entering a Little Rock high school.
- 1967 Operation Swift begins as US Marines engage North Vietnamese Army troops in Que Son Valley.
- 1972 Mark Spitz becomes first Olympic competitor to win 7 medals during a single Olympics Games.
- 1998 Google founded by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
