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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, August 18, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 85. Light southwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 66. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.
Highs are forecast to start to drop near the end of the week, with lows remaining in the upper 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1587 In the Roanoke Island colony, Ellinor and Ananias Dare become parents of a baby girl whom they name Virginia, the first English child born in what would become the United States.
- 1590 John White, the leader of 117 colonists sent in 1587 to Roanoke Island (North Carolina) to establish a colony, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement deserted. No trace of the settlers is ever found.
- 1774 Birth of Meriwether Lewis, American explorer who led the Corps of Discovery with William Clark.
- 1807 Birth of Charles F. Adams, U.S. diplomat and public official whose father was John Quincy Adams.
- 1862 Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart’s headquarters is raided by Union troops of the 5th New York and 1st Michigan cavalries.
- 1864 Union General William T. Sherman sends General Judson Kilpatrick to raid Confederate lines of communication outside Atlanta. The raid is unsuccessful.
- 1898 Adolph Ochs takes over the New York Times, saying his aim is to give “the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it early, if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other medium.”
- 1920 Tennessee becomes the thirty-sixth state to ratify the nineteenth amendment granting women’s suffrage, completing the three-quarters necessary to put the amendment into effect.
- 1929 The first cross-country women’s air derby begins. Louise McPhetridge Thaden wins first prize in the heavier-plane division, while Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie finishes first in the lighter-plane category.
- 1934 Birth of Roberto Clemente, outfielder for Pittsburgh Pirates, first Latin American enshrined in National Baseball Hall of Fame; died in plane crash while delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua, Dec. 31, 1972.
- 1939 The film The Wizard of Oz opens in New York City.
- 1942 Japan sends a crack army to Guadalcanal to repulse the U.S. Marines fighting there.
- 1963 James Meredith, the first African American to attend University of Mississippi, graduates.
- 1965 Operation Starlite marks the beginning of major U.S. ground combat operations in Vietnam.
- 1969 Two concert goers die at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix.
- 1973 Hank Aaron makes his 1,378 extra-base hit, surpassing Stan Musial’s record.
- 1982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance.
- 1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life terms for poisoning 24 patients.
- 1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans nominate the George H.W. Bush-Dan Quayle ticket.
- 1992 Dennis Rader, the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer receives 10 consecutive life sentences. He had terrorized Wichita, Kansas, murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991.
- 2011 Gold hits a record price of $1,826 per ounce.
