Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, March 7, 2023:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 62. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 43. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
A mix of sun and clouds is expected for the next week, with highs rising over the next weekend.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1707 Birth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1847 U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
- 1862 Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
- 1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
- 1927 A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
- 1933 The film King Kong premieres in New York City.
- 1933 The board game Monopoly is invented.
- 1935 Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
- 1951 U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
- 1968 The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
- 1971 A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.
- 1979 Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.