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Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, December 30, 2022:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Tonight:
A chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 54. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
High temperatures are forecast to remain in the 60s, with a chance of showers returning over the weekend.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1803 The United States takes possession of the Louisiana area from France at New Orleans with a simple ceremony, the simultaneous lowering and raising of the national flags.
- 1861 Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879.
- 1862 The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet for comment.
- 1867 Birth of Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist and U.S. senator for Colorado.
- 1905 Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho is killed by an assassin’s bomb.
- 1972 After two weeks of heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam, President Nixon halts the air offensive and agrees to resume peace negotiations with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho.
- 1976 Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising.
