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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, December 7, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 45. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs are expected to remain in the 60, with lows in the 40s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 1808 James Madison is elected president in succession of Thomas Jefferson.
- 1861 USS Santiago de Cuba, under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schooner Eugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent.
- 1862 Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
- 1863 Outlaw George Ives, an alleged member of an outlaw gang known as the “Innocents,” robs and then kills Nick Thiebalt in the Ruby Valley of what would become Montana.
- 1873 Birth of Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (O Pioneers!, My Antonia).
- 1917 The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary with only one dissenting vote in Congress.
- 1928 Birth of Noam Chomsky, writer, linguist and political activist.
- 1941 Japanese planes raid Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a surprise attack, bringing the US into WWII.
- 1942 The U.S. Navy launches USS New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built.
- 1946 The president of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, orders all striking miners back to work.
- 1949 The A.F.L. and the C.I.O. organize a non-Communist international trade union.
- 1972 The crew of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1981 The Reagan Administration predicts a record deficit in 1982 of $109 billion.
- 1995 Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter after a 6-year journey.
- 1999 The Recording Industry Association of America files a copyright infringement suit against the file-sharing website Napster.
