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Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, August 12, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 90. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 69. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the upper 80s to low 90s until the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1781 Birth of Robert Mills, architect and engineer whose designs include the Washington Monument, the National Portrait Gallery and the U.S. Treasury Building.
- 1863 Confederate raider William Quantrill leads a massacre of 150 men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas.
- 1859 Birth of Katherine Bates, composer of “America the Beautiful.”
- 1864 After a week of heavy raiding, the Confederate cruiser Tallahassee claims six Union ships captured.
- 1881 Birth of Cecil B. DeMille, American film director, producer and screenwriter, famous for epic productions.
- 1896 Gold is discovered near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. After word reaches the United States in June of
- 1897, thousands of Americans head to the Klondike to seek their fortunes.
- 1898 The Spanish American War officially ends after three months and 22 days of hostilities.
- 1908 Henry Ford’s first Model T rolls off the assembly line.
- 1922 The home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. is dedicated as a memorial.
- 1935 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill.
- 1936 Birth of Vice-Admiral John Poindexter, Security Adviser to Pres. Ronald Reagan (Dec 1985–Nov 1986); convicted on 5 felonies arising from the Iran/Contra affair, but the convictions were overturned on appeal.
- 1972 As U.S. troops leave Vietnam, B-52’s make their largest strike of the war.
- 1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes its first free flight and landing.
- 1981 Computer giant IBM introduces its first personal computer.
- 1992 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is concluded between the United States, Canada and Mexico, creating the world’s wealthiest trade bloc.
