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Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, December 26, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph.
High temperatures are expected to drop sharply on Tuesday, with a chance of showers around midweek.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1776 After crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey, George Washington leads an attack on Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and takes 900 men prisoner.
- 1786 Daniel Shay leads a rebellion in Massachusetts to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of debt.
- 1862 38 Santee Sioux are hanged in Mankato, Minnesota for their part in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Little Crow has fled the state.
- 1866 Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, head of the Department of the Platte, receives word of the Fetterman Fight in Powder River County in the Dakota territory.
- 1891 Birth of Henry Miller, American writer.
- 1894 Birth of Jean Toomer, poet and novelist who figured prominently in the Harlem Renaissance (Cane).
- 1905 Birth of William Loeb III, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader (later The New Hampshire Union Leader), one of the best-known small town newspapers in the US.
- 1907 Birth of Albert Gore Sr., US Senator from Tennessee who was instrumental in sponsoring and pushing through legislation that created America’s Interstate Highway System.
- 1917 As a wartime measure, President Woodrow Wilson places railroads under government control, with Secretary of War William McAdoo as director general.
- 1925 Six U.S. destroyers are ordered from Manila to China to protect interests in the civil war that is being waged there.
- 1941 General Douglas MacArthur declares Manila an open city in the face of the onrushing Japanese Army.
- 1945 The United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain, end a 10-day meeting, seeking an atomic rule by the UN Council.
- 1953 The United States announces the withdrawal of two divisions from Korea.
- 1982 Time magazine chooses a personal computer as it “Man of the Year,” the first non-human ever to receive the honor.
- 1996 JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, is found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, one of the most high-profile crimes of the late 20th century in the US.
- 2006 Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford dies at age 93. Ford was the only unelected president in America’s history.
