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Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, October 14, 2022:
Today:
Patchy drizzle before 11am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
A slight chance of rain and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Highs are expected to remain in the 70s through the weekend, with a chance of thunderstorms through Saturday night.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1651 Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress.
- 1773 Britain’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo is burned at Annapolis, Md.
- 1832 Blackfeet Indians attack American Fur Company trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River, killing one.
- 1884 Transparent paper-strip photographic film is patented by George Eastman.
- 1888 Birth of Katherine Mansfield, short story writer.
- 1890 Birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-1961).
- 1894 Birth of e.e. cummings, American poet.
- 1896 Birth of Lilian Gish, Film actress, “The First Lady of the Silent Screen.”
- 1912 Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech.
- 1916 Birth of C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General.
- 1930 Singer Ethel Merman stuns the audience when she holds a high C for sixteen bars while singing “I Got Rhythm” during her Broadway debut in Gershwin’s Girl Crazy.
- 1947 Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier aboard a Bell X-1 rocket plane.
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins; USAF U-2 reconnaissance pilot photographs Cubans installing Soviet-made missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
- 1964 Rev. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.
- 1968 US Defense Department announces 24,000 soldiers and Marines will be sent back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty.
- 1998 Eric Robert Rudolph charged with the 1996 bombing during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; It was one of several bombing incidents Rudolph carried out to protest legalized abortion in the US.
