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Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, August 15, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 88. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 69. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
Highs are forecast to drop very gradually over the next week into the mid-80s, with lows remaining in the upper 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1864 The Confederate raider Tallahassee captures six Federal ships off New England.
- 1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic.
- 1935 American comedian and “cowboy philosopher” Will Rogers dies in an airplane accident, along with American aviation pioneer Wiley Post.
- 1942 The Japanese submarine I-25 departs Japan with a floatplane in its hold which will be assembled upon arriving off the West Coast of the United States, and used to bomb U.S. forests.
- 1944 American, British and French forces land on the southern coast of France, between Toulon and Cannes, in Operation Dragoon.
- 1945 Gasoline and fuel oil rationing ends in the United States.
- 1950 Two U.S. divisions are badly mauled by the North Korean Army at the Battle of the Bowling Alley in South Korea, which rages on for five more days.
- 1969 Over 400,000 young people attend a weekend of rock music at Woodstock, New York.
- 1971 US President Richard Nixon announces a 90-day freeze on wages and prices in an attempt to halt rapid inflation.
- 1986 Ignoring objections from President Ronald Reagan’s Administration, US Senate approves economic sanctions against South Africa to protest that country’s apartheid policies.
- 1994 US Social Security Administration, previously part of the Department of Health and Human Services, becomes an independent government agency.
