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Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, September 29, 2022:
Today:
Patchy dense fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 88. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 65. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs are expected to drop sharply starting Thursday, reaching the low 80s by Friday and remaining there.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1789 Congress votes to create a U.S. army.
- 1850 Mormon leader Brigham Young is named the first governor of the Utah Territory.
- 1864 Union troops capture the Confederate Fort Harrison, outside Petersburg, Virginia.
- 1879 Dissatisfied Ute Indians kill Agent Nathan Meeker and nine others in the “Meeker Massacre.”
- 1901 Birth of Enrico Fermi, Italian-born U.S. physicist who led the group which created the first man-made nuclear chain reaction.
- 1907 Birth of Gene Autry, actor, singer, star of radio, film and TV1932 A five-day work week is established for General Motors workers.
- 1935 Birth of Jerry Lee Lewis, singer, songwriter, musician; influential figure in early rock ‘n’ roll (“Great Balls of Fire”).
- 1960 General Douglas MacArthur officially returns Seoul, South Korea, to President Syngman Rhee.
- 1966 Chevrolet introduces the Camaro, which will become an iconic car.
- 1990 The YF-22, later named F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- 2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 777.68 points in the wake of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual bankruptcies, the largest single-day point loss in Wall Street history.
