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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, September 15, 2022:
Today:
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 80. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 65. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
Highs are expected to stay in the low 80s for much of next week, with lows dropping into the lower 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1857 Birth of William Howard Taft, 26th president of the United States (1909-1913).
- 1858 The Butterfield Overland Mail Company begins delivering mail from St. Louis to San Francisco. The company’s motto is: “Remember, boys, nothing on God’s earth must stop the United States mail!”
- 1862 Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, securing the rear of Robert E. Lee’s forces in Maryland.
- 1891 The Dalton gang holds up a train and takes $2,500 at Wagoner, Oklahoma.
- 1914 President Woodrow Wilson orders the Punitive Expedition out of Mexico. The Expedition, headed by General John Pershing, had been searching for Pancho Villa, a Mexican revolutionary.
- 1950 U.N. Forces, lead by the U.S. Marine Corps, invade occupied Korea at the port of Inchon. Considered the greatest amphibious attack in history, it is the zenith of General Douglas MacArthur’s career.
- 1961 Hurricane Carla comes ashore in Texas, the second-most powerful ever to make landfall in that state.
- 1963 Four young African-American girls are killed by the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1966 US President Lyndon Johnson urges Congress to adopt gun control legislation in the wake of Charles Whitman’s sniper attack from the University of Texas’s Texas Tower; in all, Whitman shot and killed 15 people before being shot dead himself by an Austin police officer.
- 1971 The environmental group Greenpeace is founded.
- 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor is unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee to become the first female justice on the US Supreme Court.
- 1998 MCI WorldCom begins operations after a landmark merger between World Com and MCI Communications.
- 2004 National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union.
- 2008 The largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history is filed by Lehman Brothers financial services firm.
