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Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, February 6, 2023:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 68. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Clear, with a low around 46. South wind around 5 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
Highs are expected to rise well above normal, peaking in the upper 70s on Thursday.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1756 Birth of Aaron Burr, 3rd U.S. Vice President.
- 1778 France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
- 1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
- 1862 The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign.
- 1891 The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
- 1895 Birth of George Herman “Babe” Ruth, baseball player with the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees and the Boston Braves. The first player to hit 60 home runs in one season.
- 1899 The Spanish-American War ends.
- 1900 President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
- 1911 Birth of Ronald Reagan, film actor and 40th U.S. President (1981-1989).
- 1916 Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State’s right to claim indemnity.
- 1922 The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years.
- 1944 Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops.
- 1945 MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
- 1963 The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
- 1964 Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State’s seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
- 1965 Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku.
- 1975 President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
- 1982 Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.
