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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, November 29, 2022:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 67. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Southeast wind around 5 mph.
Highs are expected to remain in the 60s, with a chance of precipitation at the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1760 Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain.
- 1832 Birth of Louisa May Alcott, novelist (Little Women).
- 1863 The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal.
- 1864 Colonel John M. Chivington’s 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles’ camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo.
- 1903 An inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions in fraud.
- 1908 Birth of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and Civil Rights leader.
- 1918 Birth of Madeleine L’Engle, writer (A Wrinkle in Time).
- 1919 Birth of Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and magazine publisher; co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness magazine.
- 1923 An international commission headed by American banker Charles Dawes is set up to investigate the German economy.
- 1948 The Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first time as the season opens with “Othello.”
- 1949 The United States announces it will conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
- 1961 NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth orbit.
- 1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- 1967 US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
- 1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
