Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, June 15, 2022

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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, June 15, 2022:

Today:

Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 81. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Tonight:

Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 63. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

High temperatures are forecast to gradually drop off into the mid-70s through the weekend.

Courtesy of HistoryNet:

  • 1607 Colonists in North America complete James Fort in Jamestown.
  • 1752 Benjamin Franklin and his son test the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm.
  • 1767 Birth of Rachel Robards Jackson, first lady to President Andrew Jackson.
  • 1775 George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief by Congress.
  • 1779 American General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York.
  • 1836 Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state.
  • 1846 Great Britain and the United States agree on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory.
  • 1849 James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, dies.
  • 1862 General J.E.B. Stuart completes his “ride around McClellan.”
  • 1877 Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
  • 1898 The U.S. House of representatives approves the annexation of Hawaii.
  • 1904 Fire aboard the paddle steamer General Slocum on New York’s East River kills 1,021, mostly German-Americans.
  • 1914 Birth of Saul Steinberg, American cartoonist.
  • 1916 President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
  • 1920 Three African Americans are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by a white mob of 5,000.
  • 1922 Birth of Morris “Mo” Udall, U.S. Congressman.
  • 1928 Republicans, convening in Kansas City, name Herbert Hoover their candidate for President.
  • 1932 Gaston Means is sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
  • 1944 U.S. Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific.