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Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, September 26, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 95. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 70. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
Excessive Heat Warning in effect from September 26, 10:00 AM PDT until September 28, 08:00 PM PDT
Highs are expected to peak in the mid-90s on Tuesday before gradually dropping over the course of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1777 The British army launches a major offensive, capturing Philadelphia.
- 1783 Birth of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American pioneer.
- 1820 The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85.
- 1864 General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, Tennessee.
- 1898 Birth of George Gershwin, composer who wrote many popular songs for musicals, along with his brother Ira.
- 1901 Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death.
- 1914 The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business.
- 1937 Bessie Smith, known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ dies in a car crash in Mississippi.
- 1941 The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps.
- 1950 General Douglas MacArthur’s American X Corps, fresh from the Inchon landing, links up with the U.S. Eighth Army after its breakout from the Pusan Perimeter.
- 1955 The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss.
- 1960 Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates.
- 1961 Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde’s Folk City.
- 1967 Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal.
- 1972 Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.
