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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, March 30, 2023:
Today:
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 61. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northeast in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 46. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Partly to mostly sunny skies are expected through next week, with highs in the 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1858 Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents the pencil with an eraser attached on one end.
- 1867 Russian Baron Stoeckl and U.S. Secretary of State Seward complete the draft of a treaty ceding Alaska to the United States. The treaty is signed the following day.
- 1870 The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race, passes.
- 1870 President U.S. Grant signs bill readmitting Texas to the Union, the last Confederate state readmitted.
- 1883 Birth of Jo Davidson, American sculptor.
- 1909 The Queensboro Bridge in New York opens. It is the first double-decker bridge and links Manhattan and Queens.
- 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration, Oklahoma, opens on Broadway.
- 1944 The U.S. fleet attacks Palau, near the Philippines.
- 1950 President Harry S Truman denounces Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.
- 1981 President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in Washington, D.C. by John W. Hinckley Jr.
