Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, December 3, 2022

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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, December 3, 2022:

Today:

Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight:

A slight chance of showers after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Highs are expected to remain in the 60s, with a chance of precipitation through Sunday.

Courtesy of HistoryNet:

  • 1818 Illinois admitted into the Union as the 21st state.
  • 1826 Birth of George B. McClellan, Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president.
  • 1847 Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney establish the North Star, and anti-slavery paper.
  • 1862 Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, Tenn.
  • 1863 Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee.
  • 1864 Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea.
  • 1906 The U.S. Supreme Court orders Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case.
  • 1915 The United States expels German attaches on spy charges.
  • 1918 The Allied Conference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war.
  • 1965 The National Council of Churches asks the United States to halt the massive bombings in North Vietnam.
  • 1977 The State Department proposes the admission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States.
  • 1979 Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • 1989 Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta.
  • 1992 A test engineer for Sema Group sends the world’s first text message, using a personal computer and the Vodafone network.
  • 1997 Representatives of 121 nations sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the manufacture or deployment of antipersonnel landmines; the People’s Republic of China, the US and the USSR do not sign.
  • 2005 First manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail takes place in Mojave, Cal.