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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, July 23, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 81. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the upper 70s to low 80s through the coming week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1637 King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
- 1834 Born: James Gibbons, American religious leader and founder of Catholic University.
- 1664 Wealthy, non-church members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote.
- 1829 William A. Burt patents his “typographer,” an early typewriter.
- 1863 Bill Anderson and his Confederate Bushwhackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
- 1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army.
- 1885 Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63.
- 1888 Raymond Chandler, detective writer, creator of Philip Marlow.
- 1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A.
- 1906 Born: Marston Bates, American zoologist, author (The Nature of Natural History).
- 1939 Born: Nicholas Gage, journalist and author (Eleni).
- 1940 Born: John Nichols, novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War).
- 1944 Born: Lisa Alther, novelist (Kinflicks).
- 1962 The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos.
- 1995 Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneously discover a comet.
