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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, December 28, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Southeast wind around 5 mph.
High temperatures are forecast to remain in the 60s, with a chance of showers returning over the weekend.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1846 Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union.
- 1856 Birth of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States.
- 1872 A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier.
- 1902 Birth of Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, educator and writer.
- 1903 Birth of John Von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician.
- 1904 Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices.
- 1920 The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists.
- 1927 U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg suggests a worldwide pact renouncing war.
- 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, “The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention.”
- 1951 The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary.
- 1965 The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia.
- 1971 The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state.
