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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, July 7, 2022:
Today:
Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 82. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 64. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Highs temperatures are expected to rise into the mid-80s over the weekend before dropping slightly in the new week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1742 A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony’s British defenders. The battle decides the fate of a colony.
- 1777 American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.
- 1791 Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church.
- 1795 Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.
- 1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis.
- 1906 Birth of Leroy “Satchel” Page, baseball pitcher.
- 1941 Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany’s hands.
- 1966 The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.
- 1969 The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon.
- 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
