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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, March 11, 2023:
Today:
A chance of rain, mainly before 10am. Cloudy, with a high near 65. Southwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight:
Cloudy, with a low around 53. West wind around 5 mph.
Another storm system is expected to pass through the region Tuesday through Wednesday, followed by mostly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1731 Birth of Robert Treat Paine, Declaration of Independence signer
- 1824 The U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker becomes the first Indian to lead the Bureau.
- 1860 Birth of Thomas Hastings, architect of the New York Public Library.
- 1861 A Confederate Convention is held in Montgomery, Ala., where the new constitution is adopted.
- 1863 Union troops under General Ulysess S. Grant give up their preparations to take Vicksburg after failing to pass Fort Pemberton, north of Vicksburg.
- 1865 Union General William Sherman and his forces occupy Fayetteville, N.C.
- 1888 A disastrous blizzard hits the northeastern United States. Some 400 people die, mainly from exposure.
- 1907 President Teddy Roosevelt induces California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
- 1926 Birth of Ralph David Abernathy, civil rights leader, associate of Dr. King.
- 1930 President Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
- 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the Lend-Lease Act which authorizes the act of giving war supplies to the Allies.
- 1942 General Douglas MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
- 1965 The American Navy begins inspecting Vietnamese junks in hopes of ending arms smuggling to the South.
- 1966 Three men are convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
- 1969 Levi-Strauss starts to sell bell-bottomed jeans.
- 1973 An FBI agent is shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
