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Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, December 2, 2022:
Today:
A chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight:
A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Highs are expected to remain in the 60s, with a chance of precipitation through Sunday.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1823 President James Monroe proclaims the principles known as the Monroe Doctrine, “that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by European powers.”
- 1863 General Braxton Bragg turns over command of the Army of Tennessee to General William Hardee at Dalton, Ga.
- 1863 Birth of Charles Ringling, one of the seven Ringling brothers of circus fame.
- 1864 Major General Grenville M. Dodge is named to replace General William Rosecrans as Commander of the Department of Missouri.
- 1867 People wait in mile-long lines to hear Charles Dickens give his first reading in New York City.
- 1906 Birth of Peter Carl Goldmark, engineer, developed the first commercial color television and the long-playing phonograph record.
- 1909 J.P. Morgan acquires majority holdings in Equitable Life Co. This is the largest concentration of bank power to date.
- 1912 Birth of Henry Armstrong, the only boxer to hold three titles simultaneously.
- 1921 The first successful helium dirigible, C-7, makes a test flight in Portsmouth, Va.
- 1925 Birth of Alexander Haig, American army general and Secretary of State for President Ronald Reagan.
- 1927 The new Ford Model A is introduced to the American public.
- 1944 General George S. Patton’s troops enter the Saar Valley and break through the Siegfried line.
- 1946 The United States and Great Britain merge their German occupation zones.
- 1970 The U.S. Senate votes to give 48,000 acres of New Mexico back to the Taos Indians.
- 1980 A death squad in El Salvador murders four US nuns and churchwomen.
- 1982 Dentist Barney Clark receives the first permanent artificial heart, developed by Dr. Robert K. Jarvik.
- 1993 NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavor on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
- 2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, one of the most complex bankruptcy cases in US history.
