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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, December 13, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 59. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 39. Calm wind.
Highs are expected to remain in the upper 50s to low 60s, with lows in the 40s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1814 General Andrew Jackson announces martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British troops disembark at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city. The Battle of New Orleans
- 1818 Birth of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
- 1862 The Battle of Fredericksburg ends with the bloody slaughter of onrushing Union troops at Marye’s Heights. Maine’s Colonel Chamberlain at Marye’s Heights.
- 1911 Birth of Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (Before the Brave, Hurrah for Anything).
- 1925 Birth of Dick Van Dyke, actor, singer, producer; (The Dick Van Dyke TV series, Mary Poppins).
- 1951 After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.
- 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border.
- 1972 Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
- 1985 France sues the United States over the discovery of an AIDS serum.
- 2003 Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein captured; he is found hiding in near his home town of Tikrit.
