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Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, March 12, 2023:
Today:
Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Another storm system is expected to pass through the region Tuesday through Wednesday, followed by mostly cloudy to partly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony.
- 1789 The United States Post Office is established.
- 1862 Birth of Jane Delano, nurse, teacher, founder of the Red Cross.
- 1863 President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.
- 1884 Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
- 1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
- 1911 Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
- 1912 Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
- 1928 Birth of Edward Albee, American dramatist (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf).
- 1933 President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.
- 1959 The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
- 1985 The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
