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Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, December 5, 2022:
Today:
Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 63. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs are expected to remain in the 60, with lows in the 40s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1776 Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek letter-fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.
- 1782 Birth of Martin Van Buren, 8th president in the United States–and the first born in the United States.
- 1839 Birth of George Armstrong Custer, Union cavalry leader who met his fate at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- 1861 In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced.
- 1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi.
- 1864 Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn.
- 1901 Birth of Walt Disney, animator and creator of an entertainment empire.
- 1931 Birth of James Cleveland, considered the “King of Gospel.”
- 1932 Birth of Richard Wayne Penniman [Little Richard], singer, musician; important influence on rock ‘n’ roll.
- 1933 The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier.
- 1937 The Lindberghs arrive in New York on a holiday visit after a two-year voluntary exile.
- 1945 Four TBM Avenger bombers disappear approximately 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
- 1955 A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 2007 A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Neb., before taking his own life.
