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Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, August 21, 2022:
Today:
Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 82. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight:
Highs are forecast to remain in the lower 80s for several days before rising back into the mid-upper 80s for the rest of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1831 Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites.
- 1858 The first of a series of debates begins between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Douglas goes on to win the Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the first time.
- 1863 Confederate raiders under William Quantrill strike Lawrence, Kansas, leaving 150 civilians dead.
- 1864 Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties.
- 1904 Birth of William “Count” Basie, American band leader and composer.
- 1936 Birth of Wilt Chamberlin, four-time MVP for the National Basketball Association and only player to score 100 points in a professional basketball game.
- 1938 Birth of Kenny Rogers, singer, actor; one of top-selling artists of all time; voted Favorite Singer of All Time in 1986 poll.
- 1942 U.S. Marines turn back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the Battle of Tenaru.
- 1944 The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays the foundation for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C.
- 1945 President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act.
- 1959 Hawaii is admitted into the Union.
- 1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched.
- 1976 Operation Paul Bunyan: after North Korean guards killed two American officers sent to trim a poplar tree along the DMZ on Aug. 18, US and ROK soldiers with heavy support chopped down the tree.
- 1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune.
- 2000 Tiger Woods wins golf’s PGA Championship, the first golfer to win 3 majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953.
