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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, August 11, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 90. Light south wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. West wind around 5 mph becoming south in the evening.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the upper 80s to low 90s until the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1856 A band of rampaging settlers in California kill four Yokut Indians. The settlers had heard unproven rumors of Yokut atrocities.
- 1862 President Abraham Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general in chief of the Union Army.
- 1929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th major league home run against the Cleveland Indians.
- 1965 A small clash between the California Highway Patrol and two black youths sets off six days of rioting in the Watts area of Los Angeles.
- 1972 The last U.S. ground forces withdraw from Vietnam.
- 1975 US vetoes admission of North and South Vietnam to UN.
- 1984 Carl Lewis wins four Olympic gold medals, tying the record Jesse Owens set in 1936.
- 1989 Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings around Neptune.
- 1999 A tornado in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, kills one person.
