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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, December 20, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 44. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Highs are forecast to remain in the 60s until the back half of the week, which will see a warm-up into the 70s, peaking in the mid-upper 70s on Christmas Day.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1802 The United States buys the Louisiana territory from France.
- 1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union.
- 1861 English transports loaded with 8,000 troops set sail for Canada so that troops are available if the “Trent Affair” is not settled without war.
- 1868 Birth of Harvey Firestone, industrialist and tire maker.
- 1881 Birth of Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1901 Birth of Robert J. Van de Graff, physicist, invented the Van de Graaff generator.
- 1904 Birth of Virgil “Spud” Davis, pro baseball catcher, coach, scout and manager.
- 1914 Birth of Harry F. Byrd Jr., first independent ever elected to US Senate by a majority of the popular vote (Virginia).
- 1938 First electronic television system is patented.
- 1941 The Flying Tigers, American pilots in China, enter combat against the Japanese over Kunming.
- 1948 U.S. Supreme Court announces that it has no jurisdiction to hear the appeals of Japanese war criminals sentenced by the International Military Tribunal.
- 1989 U.S. troops invade Panama to oust General Manuel Noriega and replace him with Guillermo Endara.
- 1996 NeXT merges with Apple Computer, leading to the development of groundbreaking Mac OS X.
