Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, January 17, 2023:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 60. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 41. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Sunny skies with highs in the low 60s are expected for the next week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1706 Birth of Benjamin Franklin, statesman, diplomat, scientist and inventor who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac.
- 1893 Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, is overthrown by a group of American sugar planters led by Sanford Ballard Dole.
- 1899 Birth of Al Capone, U.S. mobster known as “Scarface Al” who ran most of Chicago and the surrounding area.
- 1922 Birth of Betty White, actress
- 1985 A jury in New Jersey rules that terminally ill patients have the right to starve themselves.