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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, December 17, 2022:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph.
Sunday
Highs are forecast to remain in the 60s until the middle of next week, which will see a warm-up into the 70s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1807 Birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, abolitionist, reformer and founder of the Liberal Party.
- 1861 The Stonewall Brigade begins to dismantle Dam No. 5 of the C&O Canal.
- 1886 At a Christmas party, Sam Starr (husband to infamous outlaw queen Belle Starr) shoots his old enemy Frank West, but is fatally wounded himself.
- 1903 Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
- 1908 Birth of Willard Frank Libby, American chemist who won a Nobel Prize for his part in creating the carbon-14 method in dating ancient findings.
- 1929 Birth of William Safire, journalist and author.
- 1930 Birth of Bob Guccione, publisher; founder of Penthouse magazine.
- 1937 Birth of US Lt. Gen. Calvin Waller, deputy commander-in-chief for military operations with US Central Command (Forward) during the First Gulf War.
- 1944 U.S. approves end to internment of Japanese Americans. U.S. Major General Henry C. Pratt issues Public Proclamation No. 21, declaring that Japanese American “evacuees” from the West Coast could return to their homes effective January 2, 1945.
- 1948 The Smithsonian Institution accepts the Kitty Hawk – the Wright brothers’ plane.
- 1989 The Simpsons, television’s longest-running animated series, makes its US debut.
