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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, April 2, 2022:
Today:
Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 69. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 55. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs are forecast to remain fairly steady until the new week week, which is expected to see a sharp rise, reaching the mid-80s by the middle of the week and peaking in the low 90s on Thursday.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1792 The United States authorizes the minting of the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins as well as the silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime.
- 1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis flees Richmond, Virginia as Grant breaks Lee’s line at Petersburg.
- 1905 Birth of Kurt Adler, American conductor.
- 1917 Jeannette Pickering Rankin is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1917 President Woodrow Wilson presents a declaration of war against Germany to Congress.
- 1931 Virne “Jackie” Mitchell becomes the first woman to play for an all-male pro baseball team. In an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, she strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
- 1932 Charles Lindbergh pays over $50,000 ransom for his kidnapped son.
- 1958 The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics is renamed NASA.
- 1963 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King begins the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, Alabama.
