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Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, December 23, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
Highs are expected to peak near 80 on Christmas Day before dropping sharply around midweek, bringing with it a chance of showers.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1805 Birth of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church.
- 1867 Birth of Madame C. J. Walker, first female African American millionaire.
- 1921 President Warren G. Harding frees Socialist Eugene Debs and 23 other political prisoners.
- 1938 Birth of Bob Kahn, computer scientist and engineer; co-developed the Transmission Control Protocol that web browsers use to connect to servers on the World Wide Web.
- 1941 Despite throwing back an earlier Japanese amphibious assault, the U.S. Marines and Navy defenders on Wake Island capitulate to a second Japanese invasion.
- 1944 General Dwight D. Eisenhower confirms the death sentence of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American shot for desertion since the Civil War.
- 1947 President Harry S Truman grants a pardon to 1,523 who had evaded the World War II draft.
- 1950 General Walton H. Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, is killed in a jeep accident. Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgeway is named his successor.
- 1967 U.S. Navy SEALs are ambushed during an operation southeast of Saigon.
- 1974 The B-1 bomber makes its first successful test flight.
- 1986 The Voyager completes the first nonstop flight around the globe on one load of fuel. The experimental aircraft, piloted by Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after nine days and four minutes in the sky.
- 2002 An Iraqi MiG-25 shoots down a US MQ-1 Predator drone.
