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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, January 4, 2023:
Today:
Showers likely before 1pm, then rain likely after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 63. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight:
Rain. Low around 54. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
There will be a chance of precipitation through much of the week, with heavy rain expected on Thursday; otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1863 Union General Henry Halleck, at the direction of President Abraham Lincoln, orders General Ulysses Grant to revoke his infamous General Order No. 11 that expelled Jews from his operational area in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi.
- 1896 Utah becomes the 45th state of the Union.
- 1902 France offers to sell their Nicaraguan Canal rights to the United States.
- 1904 The U.S. Supreme Court decides in the Gonzales v. Williams case that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and can enter the United States freely, yet stops short of awarding citizenship.
- 1914 Birth of Jane Wyman, American film actress, received Academy Award for Johnny Belinda; she was the first wife of future US President Ronald Reagan.
- 1935 Birth of Floyd Patterson, professional boxer; at age 21 he became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title (later replaced by Mike Tyson at age 20) and the first heavyweight to regain the title.
- 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt claims in his State of the Union message that the federal government will provide jobs for 3.5 million Americans on welfare.
- 1936 Billboard magazine publishes its first music “Hit Parade.”
- 1951 UN forces abandon Seoul, Korea, to the Chinese Communist Army.
- 1974 President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
- 1999 Jesse “The Body” Ventura, a former professional wrestler, is sworn in as populist governor of Minnesota.
- 2004 NASA Mars rover Spirit successfully lands on Mars.
- 2007 Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) becomes the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
