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Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, May 14, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 89. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 61. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
Highs are forecast to gradually drop back into the mid-70s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
- 1853 Gail Borden applies for a patent for condensed milk.
- 1863 Union General Nathanial Banks heads towards Port Hudson along the Mississippi River.
- 1897 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first communication by wireless telegraph.
- 1897 “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia.
- 1961 A bus carrying black and white civil rights activists is bombed and burned in Alabama.
- 1969 Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam.
- 1973 The U.S. space station Skylab is launched.
