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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, February 23, 2023:
Today:
Rain likely. Partly sunny, with a high near 54. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight:
Rain. Low around 44. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
A weather system will move through the region, bringing rain through the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1540 Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado begins his unsuccessful search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold in the American Southwest.
- 1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
- 1836 The Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna.
- 1846 The Liberty Bell tolls for the last time, to mark George Washington’s birthday.
- 1847 Forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at the Battle of Buena Vista.
- 1861 Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union.
- 1868 Birth of W.E.B. [William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois, U.S. historian and civil rights leader, founder of what became the NAACP.
- 1883 Birth of Victor Fleming, film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind)
- 1904 Birth of William Shirer, CBS broadcaster and author1916 Secretary of State Lansing hints that the U.S. may have to abandon the policy of avoiding “entangling foreign alliances”.
- 1921 An airmail plane sets a record of 33 hours and 20 minutes from San Francisco to New York.
- 1924 Birth of Allan MacLeod Cormack, physicist, developed the CAT scan.
- 1926 President Calvin Coolidge opposes a large air force, believing it would be a menace to world peace.
- 1942 A Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, the first Axis bombs to hit American soil.
- 1944 American bombers strike the Marianas Islands bases, only 1,300 miles from Tokyo.
- 1945 Eisenhower opens a large offensive in the Rhineland.
- 1945 U.S. Marines plant an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
- 1950 New York’s Metropolitan Museum exhibits a collection of Hapsburg art. The first showing of this collection in the U.S.
- 1954 Mass inoculation begins as Salk’s polio vaccine is given to children for first time.
- 1960 Whites join Negro students in a sit-in at a Winston-Salem, N.C. Woolworth store.
- 1967 American troops begin the largest offensive of the war, near the Cambodian border.
- 1972 Black activist Angela Davis is released from jail where she was held for kidnapping , conspiracy and murder.
