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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, January 31, 2023:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 39. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Mostly sunny skies and highs in the 60s are expected through the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1620 Virginia colony leaders write to the Virginia Company in England, asking for more orphaned apprentices for employment.
- 1734 Birth of Robert Morris, signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1835 A man with two pistols misfires at President Andrew Jackson at the White House.
- 1865 House of Representatives approves a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
- 1916 President Woodrow Wilson refuses the compromise on Lusitania reparations.
- 1919 Birth of Jackie Robinson, first African-American baseball player in the modern major leagues.
- 1925 Birth of Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader.
- 1944 U.S. troops under Vice Adm. Spruance land on Kwajalien atoll in the Marshall Islands.
- 1966 U.S. planes resume bombing of North Vietnam after a 37-day pause.
- 1968 In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive begins as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers attack strategic and civilian locations throughout South Vietnam.
- 1976 Ernesto Miranda, famous from the Supreme Court ruling on Miranda vs. Arizona is stabbed to death.
