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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, January 12, 2023:
Today:
Partly sunny, with a high near 70. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Partly sunny skies are forecast until the end of the week, with a chance of rain returning over the weekend.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1588 Birth of John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1737 Birth of John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1876 Birth of Jack London, American writer (The Call of the Wild).
- 1915 The U.S. Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park.
- 1923 Birth of Ira Hays, one of the US Marines photographed in the iconic image of raising a flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima; member of the Pima tribe; portrayed himself in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima.
- 1926 U.S. coal talks break down, leaving both sides bitter as the strike drags on into its fifth month.
- 1927 U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg claims that Mexican rebel Plutarco Calles is aiding communist plot in Nicaragua.
- 1932 Oliver Wendell Holmes retires from the Supreme Court at age 90.
- 1962 The United States resumes aid to the Laotian regime.
- 1982 Peking protests the sale of U.S. planes to Taiwan.
- 1991 The U.S. Congress gives the green light to military action against Iraq in the Persian Gulf Crisis.
