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Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, November 27, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 48. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph.
Highs are expected to drop into the lower 60s and remain there for the coming week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1826 Jebediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
- 1862 George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
- 1868 Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
- 1874 Birth of Charles A. Beard, distinguished American historian who wrote History of the United States.
- 1887 U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
- 1909 U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
- 1942 Birth of Jimi Hendrix, influential rock musician.
- 1950 East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
- 1967 Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank.
- 1973 US Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States, following Spiro Agnew’s resignation; the House will confirm Ford on Dec. 6.
- 1978 San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White.
- 2001 The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
