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Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, March 20, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 75. West wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 49. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Highs are expected to return to the 80s, peaking near 90 midweek before gradually dropping.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1760 The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
- 1841 Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published.
- 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
- 1904 Birth of B.F. Skinner, American psychologist.
- 1922 President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. troops back from the Rhineland.
- 1928 Birth of Fred Rogers, television performer (Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood).
- 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt names William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court.
- 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.
- 1969 Senator Edward Kennedy calls on the United States to close all bases in Taiwan.
- 1976 Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery.
- 1982 U.S. scientists return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there.
- 1987 The United State approves AZT, a drug that is proven to slow the progress of AIDS.
