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Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, January 20, 2023:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 62. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 40. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Sunny skies with highs in the 60s are expected for the next week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1732 Birth of Richard Henry Lee, American Revolutionary patriot and signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1783 Britain signs a peace agreement with France and Spain, who allied against it in the American War of Independence.
- 1893 Birth of Bessy Colman, first African American aviator.
- 1908 The Sullivan Ordinance bars women from smoking in public facilities in the United States.
- 1930 Birth of Dr. Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, second man to walk on the moon.
- 1930 Charles Lindbergh arrives in New York, setting a cross country flying record of 14.75 hours.
- 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for his fourth term.
- 1977 President Jimmy Carter is sworn in and then surprises the nation as he walks from the U.S. Capitol to the White House.
- 1981 Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president at the same time 52 American hostages are released from their captors in Tehran, Iran.
