Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, March 27, 2023:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 49. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.
Tuesday
Sunny skies are forecast through the middle of next week, with a chance of rain overnight Tuesday through early Thursday.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.
- 1814 U.S. troops under Gen. Andrew Jackson inflict a crushing defeat on the Creek Indians at Horshoe Bend in Northern Alabama.
- 1836 The Mexican army massacres Texan rebels at Goliad.
- 1866 President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill, which later becomes the 14th amendment.
- 1879 Birth of Edward Steichen, pioneer of American photography.
- 1884 The first long-distance telephone call is made from Boston to New York.
- 1910 Birth of John Robinson Pierce, the father of communications satellites.
- 1912 The first cherry blossom trees, a gift from Japan, are planted in Washington, D.C.
- 1933 Some 55,000 people stage a protest against Hitler in New York.
- 1941 Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Oahu, Hawaii, to begin spying for Japan on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor.
- 1945 General Dwight Eisenhower declares that the German defenses on the Western Front have been broken.
- 1952 Elements of the U.S. Eighth Army reach the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas.
- 1958 The United States announces a plan to explore space near the moon.
- 1976 Washington, D.C. opens its subway system.