Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, February 15, 2023:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 63. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 40. Light and variable wind becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
Highs are forecast to remain in the 60s through the week, with a slight chance of showers at the end of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1726 Birth of Abraham Clark, signer of Declaration of Independence.
- 1798 The first serious fist fight occurs in Congress.
- 1804 New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery.
- 1820 Birth of Susan B. Anthony, suffragette and political activist.
- 1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches a major assault on Fort Donelson, Tenn.
- 1869 Charges of treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped.
- 1882 Birth of John Barrymore, actor, sibling to actors Lionel Barrymore & Ethel Barrymore, father of actors John Drew Barrymore & Diana Barrymore and grandfather of actor Drew Barrymore.
- 1898 The U.S. battleship Maine blows up in Havana Harbor, killing 268 sailors and bringing hordes of Western cowboys and gunfighters rushing to enlist in the Spanish-American War.
- 1905 Birth of Harold Arlen, composer, arranger and pianist (“Stormy Weather,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon”).
- 1934 U.S. Congress passes the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act, allotting new funds for Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
- 1943 The Germans break the American Army’s lines at the Fanid-Sened Sector in Tunisia, North Africa.
- 1944 American bombers attack the Abbey of Monte Cassino in an effort to neutralize it as a German observation post in central Italy.
- 1961 Eighteen members of the U.S. figure skating team are lost in an airplane crash in Belgium.
- 1967 Thirteen U.S. helicopters are shot down in one day in Vietnam
- 1974 U.S. gas stations threaten to close because of federal fuel policies.