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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, December 27, 2022:
Today:
Showers, mainly after 4pm. Patchy fog before 10am. High near 66. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight:
Showers, mainly before 4am. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 53. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
High temperatures are forecast to remain in the 60s, with a chance of showers through the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1512 The laws of Burgos give New World natives legal protection against abuse and authorize Negro slavery.
- 1829 Birth of Hinton Helper, southern abolitionist who wrote The Impending Crisis.
- 1862 Union General William Rosecrans’ army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from Nashville.
- 1901 Birth of Marlene Dietrich, German-born singer and actress.
- 1913 Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago.
- 1915 In Ohio, iron and steel workers go on strike for an eight-hour day and higher wages.
- 1919 Birth of Major General Charles Sweeney, the pilot of Bocks Car, the B-29 that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1932 Radio City Music Hall opens.
- 1944 General George S. Patton’s Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium.
- 1945 The International Monetary Fund and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development are created.
- 1950 The United States and Spain resume relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.
- 1956 Segregation on buses in Tallahassee, Florida, is outlawed.
- 1968 The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel.
- 1983 President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines.
- 2001 China receives permanent normal trade relations with the US.
- 2004 Radiation reaches Earth from the brightest extrasolar event ever witnessed, an explosion of magnetar SGR 1806-20.
