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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, June 14, 2022:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 82. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 63. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
High temperatures are forecast to remain in the low to mid 80s to midweek before gradually dropping off into the 70s through the weekend.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1642 Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies.
- 1775 The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops.
- 1777 The Continental Congress authorizes the “stars and stripes” flag for the new United States.
- 1811 Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- 1846 A group of settlers declare California to be a republic.
- 1855 Birth of Robert Marion “Fighting Bob” LaFollette, reform movement leader, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator and Progressive Party presidential candidate.
- 1864 At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell.
- 1893 The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day.
- 1922 President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio.
- 1927 Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.
- 1932 Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill.
- 1942 The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional.
- 1944 Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan.
- 1946 Birth of Donald Trump, New York real estate mogul and 45th President of the United States.
- 1951 UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr.
- 1954 Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.
- 1989 Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives.
