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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, August 9, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the upper 80s until the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1645 Settlers in New Amsterdam gain peace with the Indians after conducting talks with the Mohawks.
- 1814 Andrew Jackson and the Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving the whites 23 million acres of Creek territory.
- 1842 The Webster-Ashburton treaty fixes the border between Maine and Canada’s New Brunswick.
- 1859 The escalator is patented. However, the first working escalator appeared in 1900. Manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company for the Paris Exposition, it was installed in a Philadelphia office building the following year.
- 1862 At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson repels an attack by Union forces.
- 1910 The first complete, self-contained electric washing machine is patented.
- 1930 First appearance of the animated character Betty Boop (“Dizzy Dishes”).
- 1936 Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in track and field events at the Berlin Olympics.
- 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The meeting produces the Atlantic Charter, an agreement between the two countries on war aims, even though the United States is still a neutral country.
- 1944 Fictional character Smokey Bear (“Only you can prevent forest fires”) created by US Forest Service and the Ad Council.
- 1945 The B-29 bomber Bock’s Car drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1969 Charles Manson’s followers kill actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home.
- 1971 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1974 Gerald Ford is sworn in as president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
- 1975 First NFL game in Louisiana Superdome; Houston Oilers defeat New Orleans Saints 13-7.
